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After nearly 6 years of exploration of the Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity robot passes the 2000-sols mark (1 sol = 1 Martian day = 24 hr 40 min) on the […]
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A stellar heart that defies predictions: this is what reveals the first mapping of the interior of a white dwarf star by an international team led by Noemi Giammichele, a […]
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Often portrayed as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be, once deployed, the largest telescope ever launched into space. Through its observations […]
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Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. They focused on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, measuring distances and […]
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A team of astrophysicists from the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie of Toulouse, the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique of Marseille and the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique of Lyon, have just discovered a giant […]
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The MOSAIC multi-object spectrograph will be the workhorse instrument for the future Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the biggest visible/infrared telescope in the world. It will be the world-leading multi-object spectrograph […]
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A gravitational wave event has been detected by the LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave observatories on the 17th August 2017. It quickly turned out that the signal corresponded to the fusion of […]
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For the first time, a gravitational wave (GW170817) was detected simultaneously (within 2 seconds) with a photon emission in the form of a short-lived gamma ray burst (GRB170817A). The gravitational […]
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The magnetic field in the dense twisted loop of gas and dust surrounding the black hole at the centre of our Galaxy has been revealed in a new image from […]