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New worlds await ESPRESSO
After nearly ten years of planning and construction, the ESPRESSO spectrograph, a high resolution instrument that will enable the discovery of exoplanets similar to our Earth, will now be installed at... read more ❯
European Space Agency Adopts PLATO mission
This mission, in which Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) is a partner, was adopted today by ESA’s Scientific Programme Committee.
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IA contributes to the technology for the detection of gravitational waves
An international consortium, of which the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) is a member, is defining and producing the prototype of the high power laser heads that... read more ❯
ESPRESSO sees the light at the end of the tunnel
An internacional team of the ESPRESSO consortium, lead in Portugal by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), has made the first test for ESPRESSO, the next generation... read more ❯
