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WEAVE: an instrument to analyse the Universe's light
The WEAVE instrument, now being installed at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Canary Islands, Spain),…
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The final dance of mixed neutron star-black hole pairs
Gravitational wave detectors have observed a new type of cataclysmic event in the cosmos: the merger of a neutron star…
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French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet to continue experiments on foams
Studying how liquid foams evolve over time is difficult, if not impossible, on Earth because of gravity.
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More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall to Earth each year
Every year, our planet encounters dust from comets and asteroid . These interplanetary dust particles pass through our atmosphere and give rise to…
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Launch of Europe’s largest astronomy network
Two astronomy networks are coming together to form Europe’s largest ground-based astronomy…
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Astronomers image magnetic fields at the edge of M87’s black hole
Within the EHT collaboration, the CNRS and IRAM participated in the creation of a new image of the black…
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First images of the cosmic web reveal a myriad of unsuspected dwarf galaxies
In the Universe, galaxies are distributed along extremely tenuous filaments of gas millions of light years long separated…
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Mars 2020 mission: Perseverance rover lands successfully carrying French Supercam instrument
Thursday 18 February, the Perseverance rover, carrying a suite of seven instruments including the French SuperCam, a greatly enhanced version of the…
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