NectarCAM collaboration meeting
The NectarCAM collaboration meeting took place from February 2nd to 4th, 2026, in the IRAP conference room. This meeting brought together all the project stakeholders from 16 European laboratories responsible […]
GAHEC
Galaxies, High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology
Westerlund 1: a stellar nursery blows a wind of particles on a galactic scale
An international team of scientists led by Marianne Lemoine, Director of Research at LP2IB, with a contribution from IRAP, has just revealed, for the first time, a stream of particles […]
ESO signs agreement for MOSAIC instrument on the ELT
Today, ESO has signed an agreement with a large international consortium for the design and construction of the Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOSAIC), an instrument for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Able […]
SVOM mission to study the most distant stellar explosions enters operational phase
The verification phase of this Franco-Chinese space mission, dedicated in particular to the detection and study of gamma-ray bursts, has come to an end with highly promising initial results. SVOM […]
Euclid telescope reports first results
Launched on July 1, 2023, the European Space Agency (ESA) space telescope will study the expansion of the universe. Although still in its early stages of operation, the instrument is […]
The January 29, 2025 gamma-ray burst observed by TAROT telescopes
At 4:45 a.m. on January 29, 2025, the Swift satellite detected a gamma-ray burst from the explosion of a star 11 billion light-years away. IRAP operates the TAROT telescope network, […]
Studying pulsars, a window on our galaxy
Galaxies are complex ecosystems that still raise many questions for scientists. The GAMALO project aims to study a phenomenon that could provide a better understanding of how they behave: pulsars. […]
The CTAO Becomes a European Research Infrastructure Consortium
On Tuesday January 7, the European Commission announced that it had granted CTAO (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory) the status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), a specific legal form under […]
Einstein’s equations collide with the mysteries of the Universe
Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of today’s greatest scientific mysteries. To unravel it, we need to put the […]