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11/10/11 Measuring the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is not easy. For the first time, a harmonisation procedure has been adopted, revealing some surprises.
7/22/11 Although considered as Earth’s twin, Venus shows itself to be a hostile environment where a strange luminous phenomenon known as “airglow” is produced.
6/21/11 Avoided by stellar seismologists until recently, red giants have proved themselves to be a goldmine for our understanding of the evolution of stars, but also for the Milky Way. What’s behind this revolution? The CoRoT and Kepler space missions that were crowned by a succession of articles in the Nature and Science journal.
7/29/10 The ULg is the first francophone Belgian university to equip itself with a robotic telescope. Responding to the effervescent name of TRAPPIST, it will scan the starry skies of Chile in the search for exoplanets and comets.
4/16/10 The chemical history of a galaxy is in particular inscribed in the internal structure of massive stars. Published in Nature, observations of the star HD50230 with the CoRoT satellite have revealed, for the first time, the heart of such a star.
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