Electron storm causes auroral emissions on Mercury’s surface!
The interaction between the solar wind and a planet’s intrinsic magnetic field leads to a variety of responses within the magnetosphere it forms. As with the Earth, but on much […]
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Final touches for the M-MATISSE mission!
The M-MATISSE mission (PI: Beatriz Sanchez-Cano, University of Leicester, UK; Co-PI: François Leblanc, LATMOS, France) was selected in November 2022 with four other candidate missions for the AO M7 Voyage […]
SVOM tank relocation
The SVOM/Eclairs test facility – a 3-tonne instrumented tank – was moved from CNES to IRAP on June 26, 2023. The white hall had to be prepared to accommodate this […]
An instrument from Toulouse will analyze a gas on the Moon’s surface in 2024
At a press briefing on Wednesday June 28, the DORN instrument was presented by those involved in the project, including Pierre-Yves Meslin, a teacher-researcher at the university and the instrument’s […]
Webb makes first detection of crucial carbon molecule in a planet-forming disc
An international team of scientists have used data collected by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to detect a molecule [1] known as the methyl cation (CH3+) for the first […]
Towards a better understanding of moon-magnetosphere plasma interactions in the Jupiter system?
Jupiter’s vast magnetosphere is filled with a plasma of electrons and ions, mainly produced by the intense volcanic activity of the moon Io. Driven into rapid rotation by Jupiter’s intense […]
The FERMI space telescope celebrates its 15th anniversary: 15 years observing the gamma rays of the Universe … and detecting their sources!
15 years ago, NASA launched the Fermi space mission, equipped with a telescope capable of observing the gamma rays of the universe, at energies several billion to several hundred billion […]
The most powerful quasar of the last 9 billion years observed in X-rays
Research led by Elias Kammoun, a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse, CNRS and CNES), has revealed the existence of […]
Jupiter: a gigantic natural particle booster
The launch of JUICE is scheduled for April 13, 2023, with the most massive planet in the solar system as its target: Jupiter, and its magnetosphere. With its rapid rotation […]