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Portuguese team moves forward towards the implementation of the MOONS spectrograph
Published 6 April, 2021 in Outreach

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 ❯
Portuguese solution for Athena space telescope was given green light by ESA
Published 19 March, 2021 in Outreach

Conceção artística do interior do telescópio de raios X Athena.

The optical component, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), and which will be part of the future European space telescope for X-ray Astronomy, has passed... read more ❯
Portugal leads the development of a system for the space telescope that will scan the Universe in X-rays
Published 16 July, 2020 in Outreach

Conceção artística do telescópio espacial Athena

The Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) won the contract of the European Space Agency to develop a precision optical system for the future high-energy space telescope. Seen in... read more ❯
ESPRESSO confirms the nearest exo-Earth
Published 26 May, 2020 in Outreach

An international team, with the participation of several researchers from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), used the ESPRESSO spectrograph to confirmed the presence of the exoplanet Proxima... read more ❯
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