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Ganymede, the only magnetized moon in our Solar System, orbits deep inside the giant magnetosphere of Jupiter where it interacts with the temporally and spatially variable magnetized disk of plasma […]
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Telescopes, their construction and operation, have recently been identified as major sources of greenhouse gases emitted by astronomical research activities. Yet greenhouse gases are not the only pressure on the […]
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Jupiter has the brightest aurora in the solar system. A particular feature of this planet, which it shares with Saturn, is also the auroral emissions caused by three of its […]
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The SVOM satellite, launched on June 22, 2024, is equipped with the ECLAIRs experiment, designed to detect gamma-ray bursts. ECLAIRs was developed by IRAP. The TAROT telescope, operated by IRAP […]
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Launched on May 3 aboard a Long March 5 rocket from the Wenchang site, China’s Chang’E 6 probe completed a successful mission to the far side of the Moon, and […]
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To describe the physical rules that govern the functioning of the observable universe, the scientific community uses the Standard Cosmological Model to represent it as accurately as possible. However, some […]
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The Franco-Chinese SVOM space mission, dedicated in particular to the detection and study of the most distant explosions or mergers of stars, known as gamma-ray bursts, was successfully launched on […]
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The X-IFU (X-ray Integral Field Unit) is the high-resolution X-ray spectrometer that will be aboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Athena space observatory in 2037, as part of the Cosmic […]
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The magnetic field of a planet can trap energetic charged particles in donut-shaped « radiation belts ». In order to better understand the formation of planetary radiation belts, a team of researchers […]