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First ever live observation of the rotation of a planetary nursery
The rotation of a protoplanetary disc (a disc where planets are being formed) has been observed directly for the very first time by mapping the…
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Le Journal
Europe takes the lead in planetary defence
The Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis is set to launch in 2028. It forms the cornerstone of a planetary defence programme designed to protect our…
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When the Sun disappears
Put on your special solar eclipse glasses, as the first solar eclipse of 2026 will take place on 17 February. Eclipses can be predicted centuries in…
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Le Journal
Gravitational wave detections spark great expectations
On 14 September, 2015, the international LIGO/Virgo collaboration detected the very first gravitational wave signal, a tiny distortion of spacetime…
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Le Journal
From popular astronomy to astrophysics
One hundred years after the death of the French astronomer and populariser of science Camille Flammarion, the CNRS physicist Jean-Philippe Uzan…
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Electric discharges detected on Mars for the first time
Electric discharges caused by dust devils and dust storms on Mars have been identified for the first time by analysing sound recordings captured by…
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Hottest news from the Sun's corona
Why is the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, so much hotter than its surface? Ten years after formulating a hypothesis based on a…
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Le Journal
The Big Bang within the reach of telescopes
With large-scale observation campaigns, innovative data analysis methods and theoretical advances on all fronts, astrophysics and cosmology are…
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JUNO: a giant detector to unravel the mysteries of neutrinos
After 10 years under construction, the giant underground neutrino detector JUNO, located in China, has at last begun observations of the most…
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