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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Published on 6 November 2019
Solar Orbiter on the way to Cape Canaveral
On Tuesday, October 15th 2019, the Solar Orbiter probe was declared as ready and was transferred to its launch site at Cape Canaveral in the U.S.A. On...
News from the labs
Published on 24 October 2019
A new constraint on the mass of "graviton"
Scientists from the observatories of Paris and Côte d’Azur, as well as the scientific center of Monaco, have used solar system data in order to constrain the...
Highlights
Published on 8 October 2019
Inauguration of NenuFAR, a radiotelescope unlike any other in the world
On thursday, October 3rd 2019, the Observatoire de Paris, Orleans University and the CNRS inaugurated at the Nançay radio-astronomical station NenuFAR,...
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Published on 8 October 2019
Is climate being taught the way it should in France?
Climatic questions dominated the news for the month of September: a summit at the United Nations in New York, un sommet des Nations unies à New York,...
News from the labs
Published on 30 September 2019
The Cosmic Jellyfish in Norma seen by ALMA
A galaxy may have all its gas swept out by ram-pressure when entering a galaxy cluster at high velocity. The result looks like a jelly-fish, where the head...