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Astronomers have long wandered whether the characteristics of the Sun make it a particular object, or just a typical star among many others. After nine years of intensive observations, a […]
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Combining the information from the ALMA interferometer and the IRAM 30-meter single-dish, an international team of astronomers led by Javier Goicoechea (CSIC) obtained the most detailed image of the Orion […]
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The Juno Mission Juno is a NASA space mission to study the planet Jupiter. The structure of this gas giant planet, its mode of formation but also the functioning of […]
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For the last 20 years, the giant planets known as hot Jupiters have presented astronomers with a puzzle. How did they get into orbits 100 times closer to their host […]
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The EMIR team of IRAP is pleased to announce the arrival of the EMIR instrument on the 10m GTC telescope of the Canary. This event marks the end of an adventure […]
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NASA and the Astrophysics and Planetology Research Institute (IRAP), located in Toulouse, France, have signed an Affiliate Member statement with NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). With the […]
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The sun by its proximity is a unique laboratory whose physical conditions are difficult to reproduce on Earth. The thermodynamic, radiative, magnetic parameters lay within unusual amplitude ranges. The interactions […]
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The Earth’s magnetic field protects us every day from the charged particles and radiations coming from sunlight. This shield is produced by geodynamo: rapid movements of huge amounts of liquid […]
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An international team including several IRAP researchers (Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse & CNRS) delivers the first results of the NASA MMS Mission (Magnetospheric Multi Scale) dedicated to the study of […]