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Green light for Carioqa space mission
Officially launched on January 16 at CNES in Paris, the Carioqa space mission will orbit the first quantum sensor by 2030. The mission is co-directed by a...
LISA mission approved by ESA
On Thursday January 25, 2024, the European Space Agency’s Scientific Program Committee (SPC) officially approved the start of development of the LISA...
ESA approves EnVision mission!
On Thursday January 25, 2024, the European Space Agency’s Scientific Program Committee (SPC) officially approved the start of development of the next...
Chance discovery of a massive "starless" galaxy
A typing error leads to an interesting discovery, as an international team including an astronomer from Observatoire de Paris - PSL has been able to...
The icy surface of Ganymede as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope
In two articles published in July 2023 in the journal Science Advances, and in December 2023 in Astronomy & Astrophysics, an international team including...
The solar system
Singular and multiple stars
Astrometry, mapping and distance scales in the Universe
Gaia’s most innovative instrument is the astrometer, which measures the distances between stars (nearly 1.5 billion distances!). These are invaluable not...
10th anniversary of Gaia satellite launch
The eventful history of the Milky Way
One of the major objectives of the Gaia mission is to shed light on the structure, formation and evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. In 10 years and...