French scientists published the results of a study of the unique ultra-slow pulsar XB091D. This neutron star is believed to have captured a companion only a million years ago and […]
The Pilot astrophysics experiment will be launched in a few days under a stratospheric balloon from Alice Springs in central Australia. The aim is to observe the polarization of the […]
The heating produced by the disintegration of isotopes of aluminum and iron potentially present in the 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet would have been too intense at the beginning of the […]
An international team of researchers including an IRAP researcher (Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse and CNRS) publishes the results of a study devoted to the early thermo-chemical evolution of the […]
When and how did the first stars appear in the Universe and how did the galaxies form? Astronomers try to answer these questions by directly observing the childhood of the […]
By pushing the largest telescopes to their limits, an international team of astronomers involving French researchers from the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (CNRS / Aix-Marseille University) and the Institut de Recherche en […]
Measurements of the Rosetta mission’s CONSERT experiment made it possible for the first time to observe the interior of a comet and to estimate the average composition of the nucleus. […]
The Orion nebula is an observational target since the earliest antiquity – first with the naked eye and then by means of ever more powerful telescopes, located for some on […]
One of the great mysteries of astrophysics lies in understanding the different stages of formation of a star such as ours. How a star like the Sun emerged from the […]