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SVOM detects signal from supernova dating back 13 billion years
SVOM begins its exploration of the distant universe: detection of a gamma-ray burst caused by a supernova that exploded 13 billion years ago. Researchers...
Four laser stars herald a new era for interferometry at the VLT
In early November 2025, four lasers fired from each of the four large 8-metre telescopes at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) were used to create...
Radio bursts reveal small-scale magnetic arches on the star AD Leonis
An international team has recorded radio emission originating from a red dwarf star with unprecedented time resolution. Astronomers from Peking University in...
Winds, Jets, and Wigglings from Young Stars and Their Disks
An international team of astronomers, including one researcher from Paris Observatory, has observed with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...