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 […]
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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 […]
XMM-Newton celebrates twenty years in space with the release of new, comprehensive source catalogues
To celebrate twenty years since the launch of the European Space Agency’s X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, a new catalogue of all of the X-ray sources detected with this satellite has been […]
Light on the first observations of the Sun by the Parker Solar Probe
The Parker Solar Space Probe set out in 2018 to discover one of the last unexplored places in the Solar System: its star. After a year of observations, it revealed, […]
Three supermassive black holes discovered at the core of one galaxy
An international research team led by scientists from Göttingen and Potsdam proved for the first time that the galaxy NGC 6240 contains three supermassive black holes. The unique observations, published […]
News about the formation of star molecules and dust
A research team from Spanish and French laboratories (1) recreated in the laboratory the conditions similar to those involved in the formation of carbonaceous star dust in the environment of […]
Success of the 3rd flight of the PILOT stratospheric balloon experiment
The third launch of the PILOT balloon took place on the morning of 24 September (5:36 Local time, 9:36 UT) from the tarmac at Timmins Airport, Ontario, Canada. After 3 […]
Ultra-sensitive to UV rays, Mini-EUSO will take a new look at the Earth from space
A Soyuz rocket has just carried a unique new instrument to the international space station: Mini-EUSO. This imager, which is extremely sensitive to UV rays, will face the Earth. First […]