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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]