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NASA MMS satellites discover new magnetic reconnection process associated with plasma turbulence

In a recent article published in the journal Nature, scientists including a researcher from IRAP (Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse & CNRS) discovered a new type of magnetic process, closely […]

17.05.2018

Observation of one of the very first galaxies in the Universe

By combining data from two major European observatories located in Chile, and those from the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of scientists composed of an associate researcher and an astronomer […]

16.05.2018

More than three quarters of a million detections of black holes, stars and other stellar exotica

The 16th of May 2018 sees the eighth data release of the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue (3XMM-DR8), the largest catalogue of X-ray sources from a single X-ray observatory. This new […]

SEIS, the French seismometer on InSight, will listen to the heartbeat of Mars

On Thursday 19 April 2018, Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES and Antoine Petit, President of CNRS, presented the InSight mission (INterior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport), […]

25.04.2018

Solar tornadoes are not tornadoes!

Against all appearances, the “solar tornadoes” do not turn. This is the conclusion of the work carried out by a team of European researchers including an IRAP astronomer (CNRS & […]

10.04.2018

2,000 sols of exploration of the Gale crater by the Curiosity robot on Mars

After nearly 6 years of exploration of the Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity robot passes the 2000-sols mark (1 sol = 1 Martian day = 24 hr 40 min) on the […]

22.03.2018

Voyage to the centre of a white dwarf

A stellar heart that defies predictions: this is what reveals the first mapping of the interior of a white dwarf star by an international team led by Noemi Giammichele, a […]

08.01.2018

JWST: a new look at the interstellar matter at the origin of planetary systems

Often portrayed as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be, once deployed, the largest telescope ever launched into space. Through its observations […]

12.12.2017

MUSE Probes Uncharted Depths of Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. They focused on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, measuring distances and […]

29.11.2017

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