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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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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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