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IA researchers among the most influential worldwide in 2021
The newest version of the world ranking of most cited researchers includes seven researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
The most recent1 “World’s Top 2% Scientists... read more ❯
Artificial Intelligence helps in the identification of astronomical objects
SHEEP is a new artificial intelligence software, developed by researchers at Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, in Portugal, to help classify astronomical sources.
26th of May 2022 – Classifying... read more ❯
ESPRESSO spectrograph measures fundamental constant of the Universe
The ESPRESSO spectrograph, installed at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, was recently used to measure the fine-structure constant, one of the Universe's fundamental constants. This work included several... read more ❯
Dark Energy Survey reveals that the Universe is just slightly less clumpy than predicted
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, which includes a researcher of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), created the most precise map, so far, of the shapes... read more ❯
