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The Solar Orbiter probe will bring new views of the Sun. This mission is operated by ESA with a contribution from NASA and is complementary to the Parker Solar Probe, an American mission launched in August 2018. France is strongly involved in this mission to the Sun.
About 120 scientists from French labs belonging to the European cosmology space mission Euclid gathered in a conference organized by IAS in november 2019 in Orsay. Euclid launch is scheduled in 2020.
During the Mercury transit on November the 11th, 2019, IAS researchers and the ALCOR astronomy club will organize an afternoon with observations of the Sun, conferences, and workshops. This event will take place on the University campus at the new physics teaching building, "hbar" (building 625).
In the framework of its 80th anniversary, CNRS organizes from the 25th to the 27th October an outreach event at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris, on the topic “New World(s)”. Our laboratory has been invited to participate to this event, and proposes virtual reality experiences and a series of talks on space exploration.
ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission has completed its test campaign in Europe and is now being packed ready for its journey to Cape Canaveral at the end of this month, ahead of launch in February 2020.
