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Cosmic giants launch a new era in radio astronomy
The discovery of two new giant galaxies in the radio emission suggests that many more of these impressive structures are about to be revealed, according to an international study1 with... read more ❯
New study questions decades of research on the evolution of spiral galaxies
Previous studies on the formation and evolution of spiral galaxies might have been based on a wrong assumption, suggests a team of researchers of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do... read more ❯
Portugal leads the development of a system for the space telescope that will scan the Universe in X-rays
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.
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Unraveling formation time-scales of galactic bulges
In a new study lead by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), researchers provided new insights into galaxy formation and evolution.
Using data from the CALIFA1 Integral Field Spectroscopy... read more ❯
