Galaxies, High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology
The COLIBRI ground-based telescope unveiled its first images at its inauguration on September 7, 2024 at the San Pedro Mártir National Astronomical Observatory, Mexico. Designed as part of the SVOMspace […]
The Paris Agreement (1) sets an ambitious target of carbon neutrality (2) by 2050 to tackle global warming. All sectors are concerned, including astronomical research. A research team has just […]
Telescopes, their construction and operation, have recently been identified as major sources of greenhouse gases emitted by astronomical research activities. Yet greenhouse gases are not the only pressure on the […]
The SVOM satellite, launched on June 22, 2024, is equipped with the ECLAIRs experiment, designed to detect gamma-ray bursts. ECLAIRs was developed by IRAP. The TAROT telescope, operated by IRAP […]
To describe the physical rules that govern the functioning of the observable universe, the scientific community uses the Standard Cosmological Model to represent it as accurately as possible. However, some […]
The Franco-Chinese SVOM space mission, dedicated in particular to the detection and study of the most distant explosions or mergers of stars, known as gamma-ray bursts, was successfully launched on […]
The X-IFU (X-ray Integral Field Unit) is the high-resolution X-ray spectrometer that will be aboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Athena space observatory in 2037, as part of the Cosmic […]
The Euclid mission today publishes its first scientific results, accompanied by new, never-before-seen images of the Universe. A demonstration of the remarkable achievements of this European satellite! These new images […]
Thanks to two NASA X-ray telescopes, an international team of scientists involving the Toulouse-based Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP/OMP – CNES/CNRS/UT3) has been able to observe a […]