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Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have installed the SuperCam Mast Unit onto the Mars 2020 rover. The instrument’s camera, laser and spectrometers can identify the chemical […]
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The Mast Unit of the SuperCam instrument of the American Mars 2020 mission will soon be delivered to NASA’s space research center, the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Pasadena-USA), in […]
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On the night of 22-23 May 2019, a prototype of the NectarCAM camera, installed in the focal plane of a medium-size telescope prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) in […]
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A new step has just been successfully taken by the scientists in charge of the realization of the X-IFU spectrometer, the flagship instrument of the future X-rays space telescope : […]
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Since 2012, Sébastien Deheuvels has been a lecturer at the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, France, and conducts his research at the IRAP/Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées. He is a specialist in internal […]
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The analysis of the energetic protons observed by the American probe Galileo from 1995 to 2003 had led to the detection of a relatively thin cloud of oxygen surrounding Jupiter […]
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One year after its installation at the top of the Maunakea volcano on the large island of Hawaii, and after several months of intensive testing, SPIRou has just passed its […]
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The Milky Way has about 100 billion stars, most of which were formed when our galaxy was half its current age. Over the time, the star formation rate has considerably slowed […]
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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory today announced the signing of three agreements to build its southern site in Chile, specifically on ESO lands 11km southeast of the Very Large […]