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Published on 21 January 2025

Monster shocks at the origin of fast radio bursts

A new mechanism involving the production of coherent radio wave emission is proposed to explain the origin of fast radio bursts. In a full-length article in...
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...
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...
Published on 24 January 2024

The aurora of Enceladus reveals itself one last time to Cassini

On September 14, 2017, during its final orbit around Saturn, the Cassini space probe observed the ultraviolet auroral imprint of the moon Enceladus in the...
Published on 20 December 2023

Cosmic dawn observational progress with NenuFAR

The NenuFAR Cosmic Dawn project has taken an important step in the exploration of the Cosmic Dawn, this key period in our Universe marked by the formation of...
Published on 3 October 2023

Radio bursts: from Jupiter to the stars

The combined results of two recent papers illustrate how studies of radio emissions from Jupiter can be transposed to star systems. Mauduit et al. [1] have...
Published on 23 March 2023

Probing the interstellar medium of a very distant galaxy

A scientific team involving GEPI at the Paris Observatory - PSL observed with the ESO/VLT X-shooter spectrograph one of the most distant gamma-ray bursts...
Published on 24 September 2022

How to measure magnetic fields within binary systems emitting gravitational waves?

In a recent study published in Physical Review D, a team from SYRTE in Observatoire de Paris and LDE3 from DAp/IRFU at CEA, demonstrated that the effect of...
Published on 1 September 2022

A coherent scenario for the Earth-Moon distance evolution

Due to tidal friction, the Earth’s rotation slows down and the Moon goes away. This is measured with centimetre precision using Lunar Laser ranging. But up...
Published on 21 July 2022

The high abundance of heavy elements hidden by dust

For a long time, ultra-luminous infrared galaxies, resulting from major galaxy mergers, appeared with a relatively low abundance of heavy elements, compared...