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A detailed look at emerging galaxies

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 […]

08.03.2017

According to the latest results of the radar CONCERT on Rosetta, comets are mainly composed of dust rich in carbonaceous material

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. […]

SOFIA: a telescope operating from the stratosphere

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 […]

22.02.2017

ALMA reveals the curious geometry of a proto-star

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 […]

09.02.2017

BLACK HOLE MEAL SETS RECORD FOR LENGTH AND SIZE

A trio of X-ray observatories has captured a remarkable event in their data: a decade-long binge by a black hole almost two billion light years away. This discovery was made […]

07.02.2017

NIKA observes the merging of clusters of galaxies

A team of researchers belonging to the the NIKAconsortium (1) led by Rémi Adam (Laboratoire Lagrange – OCA, UCA, LPSC Grenoble, CNES), Iacopo Bartalucci and Gabriel Pratt (CEA Saclay), obtained for […]

11.01.2017

SuperCam : design review successful

On December 7, 8 and 9, 2016, the SuperCam team made up of researchers from IRAP (Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse & CNRS) and engineers of the Scientific Instrumentation Group […]

03.01.2017

Green light for the SVOM mission

The CNES Administration Board recently approved the French Space Agency’s commitment to the Sino-French scientific mission SVOM (Space-based Multiband Astronomical Variable Objects Monitor). The SVOM satellite will be launched in […]

14.12.2016

The COMETS symposium : a wonderful success

The symposium “COMETS, a new vision after Rosetta and Philae” organized by the CNES and the IRAP (Université Paul Sabatier of Toulouse & CNRS) with financial support from ESA, was […]

07.12.2016

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