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European Research Council grants 2,5 million euro fund to develop new methods for the detection of other earths in the Universe
For the next 5 years, project FIERCE, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher Nuno Cardoso Santos, will develop new data analysis methods, to model and characterize,... read more ❯
European Space Agency orders IA’s optical technology
An optical calibration system produced by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) for the PLATO space mission has been trusted by the European Space Agency (ESA) for... read more ❯
CHEOPS reveals a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet
This research, lead by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher Susana Barros, is the first time that the deformation of an exoplanet has been detected.
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Portuguese team moves forward towards the implementation of the MOONS spectrograph
One of the components of the MOONS spectrograph, designed by a team from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), is about to travel to the Paranal Observatory, in... read more ❯