The Labex UnivEarthS was pleased to invite the community to its seventh scientific council which took place on 9 and 10 November 2017 in Paris. Thursday, November 9th was a day of tribute to the works of Pierre Binétruy and Neil Gehrels, who unfortunately left us this year. These two great scientists have left behind an extraordinary legacy, which we […]
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On September 15, 2017, the Cassini probe that has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004 will complete its mission, dipping towards the planet to the rings in the upper layers of its atmosphere where it will be consumed by the forces of friction. A final phase called by the Nasa “Grand Finale”, which will lead the probe to areas […]
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Barry Clark Barish, emeritus professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), became Principal Investigator of the Gravitational Wave Observatory by Laser Interferometry (LIGO) in 1994 and its director from 1997 for several years. He led the effort to approve funding for LIGO by NSF in 1994, the construction and commissioning of LIGO interferometers in Livingston, LA and Hanford, WA […]
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The Advanced LIGO-Virgo collaboration would like to announce the third detection of gravitational waves, confirming the beginning of a new field of astronomy. As with the first two detections, the gravitational waves detected on January 4th, 2017, were emitted by the coalescence of two black holes, with masses of 30 and 20 solar masses respectively, at a distance of three […]
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On March 20, 2017, the CNRS and the Société Française de Physique organize “The night of gravitationnal wawes” in fifteen cities in France and Italy, an event supported by Labex UnivEarthS. With scientific conferences, virtual tours of laboratories, a quiz and a projection of excerpts of commented films, this event open to all celebrates the discovery of gravitational waves announced […]
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