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Highlights
Published on 5 May 2020
The ELT will be the largest telescope ever built...
The European organisation ESO has embarked on the construction of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in the middle of the Chilean desert. The telescope and...
News from the labs
Published on 4 May 2020
General relativity confirmed using Nançay’s radiotelescope
A collaboration involving researchers from Paris Observatory - PSL, CNRS and LPC2E (Orléans) reports in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics the most...
Highlights
Published on 10 April 2020
BepiColombo flies over the Earth
BepiColombo passes close to Earth on April 10, 2020 at 06:25 Paris time, before continuing its journey to Mercury. Launched on October 19, 2018 in Kourou,...
Highlights
Published on 17 February 2020
LOFAR pioneers new way to study exoplanet environments
Using the Dutch-led Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope, astronomers have discovered unusual radio waves coming from the nearby red dwarf star...
News from the labs
Published on 7 February 2020
The surface of the Sun is magnetized
A recent compilation of several spectroscopic observations of the surface of the Sun shows that the magnetic field gradient in the vertical direction is 3...
News from the labs
Published on 24 January 2020
MICADO, future ELT camera, takes an important step in its design
C’est officiel depuis le 21 janvier 2020. MICADO, instrument de première lumière de l’Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) de l’ESO, franchit avec succès sa revue...
Highlights
Published on 10 December 2019
First discoveries of the Parker Solar Probe mission
The analysis of the first results from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission, in which participated the Plasma Physics laboratory (CNRS/École...
Highlights
Published on 28 November 2019
The mystery of the origin of the stellar halo of our Galaxy is being revealed
Thanks to data collected by the European astrometric satellite Gaia, the history of the Milky Way is being revealed. In a study published on November 20,...
Highlights
Published on 26 November 2019
The first detection of very high energy gamma ray bursts
Two gamma ray bursts have just broken the current energy record.
Highlights
Published on 26 November 2019
First ever satellite using iodine propulsion
On November 3rd 2019, the first ever satellite using iodine propulsion was sent into space. This innovation in the history of satellites was made possible...