The constellations: outlines for finding your way in the sky
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July 11, 2022
On a beautiful cloudless night, what’s more magnificent than the myriad of stars populating the celestial sphere. Constellations are the easiest...Read more
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Lise Meitner, who helped unlock the secrets of the nucleus of atoms
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March 14, 2023
The physicist Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission, but her work has not gained the recognition it deserves. Some of her male colleagues reaped...Read more
Researcher anecdotes: cosmic predictions
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March 8, 2023
Auriane Egal is an astrophysicist and researcher at the Planétarium. It sometimes happens that people confuse her area of expertise with astrology,...Read more
Vera Cooper Rubin, the woman who discovered the dark side of the Universe
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February 14, 2023
The astronomer Vera Rubin isn’t a name to the general public. Nevertheless, she made some major discoveries, which became important research topics...Read more
Mary Jackson, a pioneer who opened the doors to space, despite segregation
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January 4, 2023
Mary Jackson played an important role in the space race in the 1960s. A talented mathematician, she was the first Afro-American woman to become an...Read more
Katherine Johnson, the mathematician who enabled NASA to travel to space
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November 22, 2022
Katherine Johnson played an important role in the space race contested by the United States and the USSR in the 1950s and ’60s. It was her abilities...Read more
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, the astronomer who made it possible to measure the Universe
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October 18, 2022
The story of the astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt is unfamiliar to the general public. Nonetheless, this great lady made a fundamental discovery in...Read more
On the lookout for meteorites with the DOMe project
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September 7, 2022
Meteorite falls are extremely rare. When one happens, looking for these celestial stones on the ground is very difficult. It was with the aim of...Read more
Space program research results – are they shared?
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August 30, 2022
Do the countries involved in space programs share the results of their work and their research among themselves? And when it comes to technological...Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals its first images
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August 4, 2022
On July 12, 2022, NASA revealed the very first pictures taken by the new James Webb Space Telescope. The five shots show us the incredible optical...Read more
