First year of the Insight Mars mission, surprising scientific results
A new understanding of Mars is emerging in light of the first year of NASA’s InSight mission. Results described in a set of six papers published today, five in Nature […]
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ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. The stunning new images of the star’s […]
Successful launch for Solar Orbiter!
The European probe begins its journey towards the centre of our Solar System, with French science in the spotlight. On Monday, February 10, 2020, at 05:03 a.m. French time, Solar […]
Europe’s Solar Orbiter will leave the Earth for the Sun on February 10, 2020
On the night of February 9-10, 2020, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Solar Orbiter probe will depart towards the Sun on board an Atlas V 411. Its […]
Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a Uranus-at-equinox type rotating magnetosphere
Within the Solar System all the planets, with the exception of Venus and Mars, have an intrinsic magnetic field strong enough to interact with the solar wind and form a […]
Finally a realistic model for Altaïr, a star with extreme rotation!
Altaïr, a bright star in the summer sky, is known for its very fast rotation. The centrifugal effect is such that its polar radius is 20% smaller than its equatorial […]
Monitoring the birth of a volcano off the coast of Mayotte
Seismological analyses highlighted the stages of formation of the new submarine volcano off the coast of Mayotte and the drainage of a deep magma reservoir. The birth of a new […]
NASA’s NICER mission gives us the best measurements of a pulsar and its cartography for the first time
Thanks to NASA’s NICER (Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer) mission, scientists have taken a major step forward in understanding pulsars, the extremely dense remnants of stars that have exploded into […]
In the heart of old stars with TESS
For the past year and a half, NASA’s TESS space mission has been scanning hundreds of thousands of stars to measure their variability and detect transits of exoplanets. Among the […]