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News from the labs
Published on 17 April 2024
GW230529: Observation of the merger of a neutron star and an unknown compact object
On May 29, 2023, during the first part of the fourth observation period (O4a) of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA, detectors, a particular merger of two stars was...
Press releases
Published on 16 April 2024
France delivers MIRS infrared imaging spectrometer for Japanese MMX space mission
On April 5, 2024, the flight model of the MIRS (acronym for MMX InfraRed Spectrometer) instrument was officially delivered, under the responsibility of...
Press releases
Published on 16 April 2024
Discovery of a record-mass stellar black hole in our Galaxy
By mining raw data from the European Gaia satellite, the DPAC collaboration has uncovered the existence of a stellar-type black hole whose record mass belies...
News from the labs
Published on 5 April 2024
The solar eclipse of April 8, 2024... partially visible in overseas France
On April 8, 2024, the first total solar eclipse of the year will take place. French citizens will be able to see a partial eclipse in certain overseas...
Press releases
Published on 29 March 2024
Bruno Sicardy, winner of the Prix Jules Janssen 2023
On Wednesday April 10, 2024, the Société Astronomique de France will award the Prix Jules Janssen 2023 to Bruno Sicardy, Professor at Sorbonne University and...
Highlights
Published on 22 March 2024
Facts about comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
An evening visitor in the spring of 2024, comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is visible from the metropolis in the early hours of the morning until early April. A sight...
Highlights
Published on 14 March 2024
Lunar chronology revised by bombardment heterogeneity
An international team involving the IMCCE is recalibrating the study of lunar samples, taking into account for the first time the heterogeneity of the...
Highlights
Published on 12 March 2024
Triton atmospheric pressure: a new value is obtained
Triton, Neptune’s main satellite, passed in front of a star on October 6, 2022. This phenomenon prompted a vast campaign of observations in India, China and...
Highlights
Published on 1 March 2024
Is it raining rocks on WASP-43 b?
By comparing observations from the Webb telescope with numerical simulations from a climate model tailor-made for "hot Jupiter" exoplanets, a scientific team...
Press releases
Published on 29 February 2024
JWST witnesses the destruction of the equivalent of an ocean every month in space
An international team involving French scientists1 from Université Paris-Saclay, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, the joint laboratory INCLASS...