Physics of the Sun, Stars and Exoplanets
Just 11.4 light-years away, two exoplanets have been detected around a nearby star. One of them, Gl725Bc, is located in the habitable zone and is now the second closest potentially […]
A new comer has joined the quest for habitable worlds. At an altitude of 2,877 meters, at the summit of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre, the SPIP instrument has […]
A decade of ultra-deep observations at Pic du Midi and the Haute-Provence Observatory Vega, the prototype of intermediate-mass stars, has revealed after more than a decade of observations a double […]
Thanks to the HiRISE instrument, scientists from CNRS Terre & Univers have been able to characterize the young Jupiter-like exoplanet AF Lep b. Direct measurement of the light emitted by […]
An international team led by researchers from the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (1) in Toulouse, the Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (2) , the Laboratoire […]
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33 000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jetstream of its […]
A research team at IRAP (CNRS Terre & Univers, Université de Toulouse III & CNES) has just deciphered the origin of periodic light bursts from the protostar V347 Aurigae in […]
Pascal PETIT, astronomer at IRAP, receives the André Lallemand prize from the French Academy of Sciences! The award ceremony took place under the dome of the Institut de France on […]
A study carried out by a team of CNRS Terre & Univers researchers as part of the ERC SPIDI (Star Planets Inner Disk Interactions) project, has revealed the presence of […]