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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 […]

16.05.2018

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

A giant gas cloud enclosing a dozen galaxies…

A team of astrophysicists from the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie of Toulouse, the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique of Marseille and the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique of Lyon, have just discovered a giant […]

13.11.2017

MOSAIC at the ELT: A Gigantic Step into the Deep Universe

The MOSAIC multi-object spectrograph will be the workhorse instrument for the future Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the biggest visible/infrared telescope in the world. It will be the world-leading multi-object spectrograph […]

22.10.2017

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