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Portuguese researchers in the front row to study the childhood of the Universe.
Published 24 October, 2017 in Outreach

Old galaxies seen by the Hubble Space Telescope

The Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) is one of the associated institutions of the MOSAIC project, the future instrument that will take the scientific community closer to... read more ❯
FADO: a ground-breaking tool to reconstruct the history of galaxies
Published 16 May, 2017 in Outreach

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FADO is a new analysis tool, developed by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) astronomers Jean Michel Gomes and Polychronis Papaderos, which uses light emitted by both stars... read more ❯
Expanding super bubble of gas detected around massive black holes in the young Universe
Published 29 March, 2017 in Outreach

Giant reservoirs of hydrogen gas about 10 billion light years away.

In a study led by Sandy Morais, a PhD student at Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) and Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), researchers found... read more ❯
Revealing the origin and nature of the outskirts of stellar megalopolis
Published 15 February, 2017 in Outreach

Mosaic with the infrared images of the six massive elliptical galaxies at halfway the life time of the Universe found in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

The most detailed study of the outskirts of massive elliptical galaxies at half the age of the Universe was carried out by an international team led by Fernando Buitrago, of... read more ❯
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