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A recent study reinforces the validity of the standard model in cosmology

A recent study led by four IRAP researchers and published within the Physical Review has shown that the standard model perfectly accounts – and far better than any other model […]

16.11.2016

Detection of Giant Glowing Halos around Distant Quasars

An international team of astronomers has discovered glowing gas clouds surrounding distant quasars. This new survey by the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope indicates that halos around quasars […]

26.10.2016

New Fermi observations: discovery of a new gamma binary

Fermi space telescope observations have allowed an international team led by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and including French researchers of the Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de […]

17.10.2016

61 Cyg A : First observation of a magnetic cycle of solar type

Astronomers have long wandered whether the characteristics of the Sun make it a particular object, or just a typical star among many others. After nine years of intensive observations, a […]

06.10.2016

Zooming into the skin of the Orion hunter

Combining the information from the ALMA interferometer and the IRAM 30-meter single-dish, an international team of astronomers led by Javier Goicoechea (CSIC) obtained the most detailed image of the Orion […]

22.09.2016

July 4, 2016: The Juno probe has a rendezvous with Jupiter

The Juno Mission Juno is a NASA space mission to study the planet Jupiter. The structure of this gas giant planet, its mode of formation but also the functioning of […]

28.06.2016

A newborn giant planet flying close to its sun

For the last 20 years, the giant planets known as hot Jupiters have presented astronomers with a puzzle. How did they get into orbits 100 times closer to their host […]

20.06.2016

EMIR has just been installed on the GTC

The EMIR team of IRAP is pleased to announce the arrival of the EMIR instrument on the 10m GTC telescope of the Canary. This event marks the end of an adventure […]

02.06.2016

France Teams with NASA to Advance Solar System Exploration

NASA and the Astrophysics and Planetology Research Institute (IRAP), located in Toulouse, France, have signed an Affiliate Member statement with NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). With the […]

18.05.2016

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