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Press
Space

Noema, the most powerful radiotelescope in the northern hemisphere, reaches its final stage

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Assemblage de la sonde américaine Parker Solar Probe
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Space

Parker Solar Probe: French research takes off for the Sun

Parker Solar Probe will soon become the spacecraft to travel the closest to the Sun, by positioning itself a little over 6 million kilometers from…

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Created image of an Ultra-Hot Jupiter as the human eye would see it.
© NASA/JPL-Caltech/V. Parmentier (AMU)
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Space

Ultra-Hot Jupiters are Half-Star, Half-Planet

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First light for SPIRou, exoplanet hunter
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Space

First light for SPIRou, exoplanet hunter

SPIRou, the new planet-hunting spectropolarimeter developed for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), has successfully recorded its first…

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Discovery of the first body in the Solar System with an extrasolar origin
© Christian Veillet, Large Binocular Telescope Observatory
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Space

Discovery of the first body in the Solar System with an extrasolar origin

Asteroid 2015 BZ509 is the very first object in the Solar System shown to have an extrasolar origin. This remarkable discovery was made by CNRS…

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The laws of star formation challenged
© ESO/ALMA/F. Motte/T. Nony/F. Louvet/Nature Astronomy
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Space

The laws of star formation challenged

An international team led by researchers at CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)…

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The largest catalog ever published of very high energy gamma ray sources in the Galaxy
© Photograph: F. Acero; Map of gamma ray sources: HESS collaboration
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Space

The largest catalog ever published of very high energy gamma ray sources in the Galaxy

The HESS international collaboration, to which CNRS and CEA contribute, has published the results of fifteen years of gamma ray observations of the…

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Comet Chury formed by a catastrophic collision
© S. Schwartz, P. Michel
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Space

Comet Chury formed by a catastrophic collision

Comets made up of two lobes, such as Chury, visited by the Rosetta spacecraft, are produced when the debris resulting from a destructive collision…

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Towards a better prediction of solar eruptions
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Matter
Space

Towards a better prediction of solar eruptions

Just one phenomenon may underlie all solar eruptions, according to researchers from the CNRS, École Polytechnique, CEA and INRIA in an article…

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A French nano satellite to unveil the mysteries of Beta Pictoris
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Engineering
Space

A French nano satellite to unveil the mysteries of Beta Pictoris

PicSat will be launched into Earth orbit on 12 January 2018 to study the star Beta Pictoris, its exoplanet and its famous debris disk, thanks to a…

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