Parker Solar Probe: French research takes off towards the Sun
Parker Solar Probe will soon become the closest spacecraft to the Sun, just over 6 million kilometres from the surface of our star. This NASA probe will include an instrument […]
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Singular waves to heat the solar corona
Superoscillations, a surprising wave effect recently discovered in physics, could be one of the mechanisms responsible for dissipating waves in the solar corona and thus for coronal heating. Researchers at […]
Workshop between amateur astronomers and planetary scientists – planets in full glamour!
Under Horizon 2020, the Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure includes an entirely new Virtual Access Service, “Planetary Space Weather Services” (PSWS) that extend the concepts of space weather and space situational […]
BepiColombo : last instrument checkings and tests for MIO – the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter – before launch !
On June 21-27 the IRAP BepiColombo Team has flown to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou in order to perform the last checkings of the two Mercury Electron Analyzers (MEA) built by […]
Digging deeper: the first catalogue of X-ray sources in overlapping observations published
The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) has published the first catalogue of X-ray sources from regions of the sky observed repeatedly. The catalogue comprises almost 72,000 objects, partly of exotic […]
Delivery and testing of the first set of FM MCP detectors for the JENI instrument
On June 7, 2018, the JUICE (Jupiter Icy moon Explorer, European Space Agency) project team at IRAP went to the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA […]
Exploring planetary plasma environments from your laptop
A new database of plasma simulations, combined with observational data and powerful visualisation tools, is providing planetary scientists with an unprecedented way to explore some of the Solar System’s most […]
A star swallowed by a new type of black holes
Using data from the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton Observatory, an international team of researchers, including three IRAP researchers, surprised a new type of black hole (an intermediate mass black hole) […]
The PLANCK collaboration receives the 2018 cosmology prize from the Gruber Foundation (Yale University). IRAP’s PLANCK team (Toulouse) is one of them!
With the 2018 award of the Cosmology Prize of the Gruber Foundation to the entire PLANCK space project team (https://gruber.yale.edu/cosmology/2018/planck-team), the PLANCK team of the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et […]