Laboratoire Dynamique des Etoiles, des Exoplanètes et de leur Environnement

Jun 19, 2024

NASA recently presented the Silver Group Achievement Award to 232 experts worldwide for their contribution to the commissioning of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). These experts worked around the clock during the six months of commissioning. Their hard work ensured that the final performance of all the instruments exceeded the original specifications. The team includes six Frenchmen, four of which belong the Astrophysics Department at Irfu, CEA Paris-Saclay.

Feb 10, 2021

Imaging Exoplanets in the Habitable Zones of Nearby Stars

Imaging planets that could potentially sustain life around nearby stars has become a possibility thanks to advances reported by an international team of astronomers in the journal Nature Communications. Using a newly developed system for mid-infrared exoplanet imaging in combination with a very long observation time, they achieved the capability of directly imaging planets about three times the size of Earth within the habitable zones of nearby stars.

Division of Electronics, Detectors and Computing for Physics (DEDIP)

Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe