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InSight Mission: Mars unveiled
Using information obtained from around a dozen earthquakes detected on Mars by the Very Broad Band SEIS seismometer, developed in France, the…
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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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