The sun by its proximity is a unique laboratory whose physical conditions are difficult to reproduce on Earth. The thermodynamic, radiative, magnetic parameters lay within unusual amplitude ranges. The interactions […]
The Earth’s magnetic field protects us every day from the charged particles and radiations coming from sunlight. This shield is produced by geodynamo: rapid movements of huge amounts of liquid […]
An international team including several IRAP researchers (Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse & CNRS) delivers the first results of the NASA MMS Mission (Magnetospheric Multi Scale) dedicated to the study of […]
The European Southern Observatory has signed a phase A study contract with the MOSAIC consortium. The multi-object spectrograph will be the workhorse instrument for the E-ELT, being the biggest telescope […]
Nearly four billion years ago, life arose on Earth. Life appeared because our planet had a rocky surface, liquid water, and a blanketing atmosphere. But life thrived thanks to another […]
IRAP is developing since 2012 a new way to test and calibrate the plasma instruments conceived within the PEPS group (Planets, Environments and Space Plasmas), CALIPSO (CALibration of Plasma Instruments […]
Geologists, chemists and geochemists of the GeoResources laboratory (CNRS, University of Lorraine), of the IRAP (CNRS, University of Toulouse) and of the IGEM (Russian Academy of Sciences) have succeeded in […]
To detect a cold body, it is necessary that detection instruments are even colder, to avoid the thermal “noise” associated with the instrument. Based on the KID technology (Kinetic Inductance […]
Following the Big Bang, the Universe expands and matter, as it cools, gradually structures. The first stars and galaxies form a few hundred thousand years after. About one billion years […]