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The CNRS welcomes France’s commitment to the construction and operation of the largest radio astronomy instrument ever built
The SKA Observatory will design and build the most sensitive radio astronomy instrument ever created, operating over an unmatched…
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Exoplanets: SPIRou carries out first ever measurement of a very young planet’s density
A research team led by scientists from IRAP (CNRS/CNES/Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier) and IPAG (CNRS/UGA) has for the first time measured…
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Saturn’s tilt caused by its moons
Two scientists from CNRS and Sorbonne University working at the Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Ephemeris Calculation (Paris Observatory - PSL…
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Machine learning: a breakthrough in the study of stellar nurseries
Artificial intelligence can make it possible to see astrophysical phenomena that were previously beyond reach. This has now been demonstrated by…
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Uncovering the hidden side of storms - France's Taranis satellite to launch in november
Sprites, elves, jets… few people know that scientists habitually use such other-worldly words to describe transient luminous events or TLEs, light…
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Has the hidden matter of the Universe been discovered?
Astrophysicists consider that around 40% of the ordinary matter that makes up stars, planets and galaxies remains undetected, concealed in the form…
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Surprisingly mature galaxies in the early Universe
When the Universe was only a tenth of its current age its galaxies experienced a growth spurt. It was this period that the scientists in the…
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Exoplanets: unveiling the beta Pictoris system
CNRS researchers at the Observatoire de Paris – PSL, Université Grenoble Alpes, Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Paris, and Université de…
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The astrophysicist Françoise Combes awarded the CNRS 2020 Gold Medal
This year, the CNRS Gold Medal, one of France’s most prestigious scientific distinctions, has been awarded to the astrophysicist Françoise Combes. As…
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