BepiColombo launched towards Mercure!
The BepiColombo mission (ESA/JAXA) lifted off from Kourou on Friday, October 19, 2018 at 10:45 p.m. (Guyana local time). The technical and administrative teams of IRAP were able to immortalize […]
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Bepi Colombo : Europe and Japan set out to conquer Mercury
Mercury is a planet that has so far been relatively little studied. Also, the European, ESA, and Japanese space agencies, JAXA, have worked together to meet this challenge and set […]
Saturn: Cassini discovers a new radiation belt
About one year ago, a spectacular dive into Saturn’s upper atmosphere put an end to the Cassini mission, a unique project that studied the Saturn system for 13 years. During […]
A Universe Aglow
Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs of atomic hydrogen surrounding distant galaxies. The exquisite sensitivity of MUSE allowed for […]
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 […]
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 […]