11/10/09 Is our earth the only oasis favourable to life? The Darwin space mission, designed to characterise exoplanetary atmospheres similar to our world, may start to form an answer. When will it be launched? 5/29/08 The Liège Space Center (CSL) will soon conduct tests on the Planck satellite in a chamber that simulates the vacuum and near-absolute-zero environment of outer space. See the film 5/26/08 In 2007, a large scale program of observations of Jupiter using the Hubble Space Telescope produced some surprising images of polar auroras above the giant planet. Bertrand Bonfond, researcher at the ULg, has been trying to understand them. 5/6/07 Is our Earth unique? How can we penetrate to the very heart of the stars? These questions are two aspects of the same space mission: CoRoT. This satellite, launched in December 2006, is now supplying us with its first observations. A spotlight on CoRoT, with Professor Arlette Noels, below.
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