by Nuno Gomes | Feb 2, 2022 | News, Newsletter
On 15 January, the world watched an undersea volcano near the Pacific islands of Tonga explode in a violent eruption, causing a tsunami that hit not just Tonga but countries as far away as Chile, at a distance of almost 10,000 kilometres. Satellites captured and...
by Nuno Gomes | Feb 1, 2022 | News, Newsletter
It’s fair to assume that “starry summer nights” can make anyone ecstatic. The stars that punctuate the dark sky open the door to a fascination with the unknown – and Sara Aparício remembers feeling exactly that way on a summer holiday night in...
by Nuno Gomes | Jan 11, 2022 | News
Wasp-103b is an exoplanet of several particularities. It orbits a star 1.7 times larger and about 200 degrees hotter than the Sun. In addition, it is extremely close to its star — so much so that it takes just one day to complete one orbit. Scientists have suspected...
by Nuno Gomes | Dec 22, 2021 | Events, News
Future: this is the word that guides Space Day. The event, which aims to celebrate the European space ecosystem, highlights the most promising solutions and entrepreneurs through the Space Awards, in which the Copernicus and Galileo Masters were handed out. The two...
by Nuno Gomes | Dec 15, 2021 | News
How did exoplanets originate? How do they evolve? What are they made of? Therese are some of the questions that the European Space Agency (ESA) Ariel mission will seek to answer from 2029, when it is scheduled to be launched on the new European launcher, the Ariane 6....
by Nuno Gomes | Nov 30, 2021 | Events, News
Due to the pandemic evolution and the rise of covid-19 positive cases both in Portugal and Europe, the Portuguese Space Agency, Portugal Space, has decided to postpone the I Copernicus National Conference, which was scheduled for the 13th – 14th of December, at...
