by Nuno Gomes | Jul 14, 2022 | Opinion
It’s Wednesday, 13th July, 6 o’clock in the morning, and it’s pouring rain in Kourou. I arrived in French Guiana on Monday evening to bear eye-witness to the launch of the ESA’s new medium-lift Vega-C rocket. This is the rocket that will in the future also...
by Nuno Gomes | Jul 12, 2022 | News
This is “an exciting moment for science and humanity”: we are finally getting to know the first images captured by the James Webb space telescope, launched on December 25th, 2021. The first image captured by the space telescope has already been released...
by Nuno Gomes | Jul 8, 2022 | News
“What I want most in the world is for schools to have no walls and for teachers to stop teaching.” Rosa Doran is not afraid of words or the controversy they may cause. The only thing that the coordinator of NUCLIO – Núcleo Interactivo de Astronomia e...
by Nuno Gomes | Jul 6, 2022 | Newsletter
The International Space University (ISU) is extremely excited to co-host the ISU Space Studies Program 2022 with the Portugal Space Agency and the Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) Taguspark Campus in Oeiras, from 27 June to 26 August 2022. This will be a wonderful...
by Nuno Gomes | Jul 6, 2022 | Newsletter
It is not unreasonable to say that, for many, contact with space begins at an early age through science and space exploration. It is common for youngsters to be fascinated by astronomy, after a first contact illuminated by the stars and distant planets observable in...
