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Patronage, the cornerstone of funding for the Festival d’art lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence
At the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, in 2020. CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU / AFP Until July 24, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence is celebrating its 75th anniversary with six new opera productions, including a world premiere…
DART: it’s confirmed, the asteroid has taken a nice hit
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist March 07, 2023 at 10:35 a.m. 8 Asteroid Dimorphos seconds before impact © NASA / JHUAPL Five scientific articles published in Nature analyze the voluntary impact…
NASA confirms that the DART impactor has indeed deflected the asteroid Dimorphos!
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist October 12, 2022 at 12:47 p.m. 15 The Didymos/Dimorphos duo observed by Hubble. An impressive cloud of debris follows the two asteroids. © NASA/ESA/STScI/Hubble Since the…
NASA’s Dart mission was a success beyond all expectations
The Dart mission vehicle sent by NASA into space hit its target and disintegrated against the asteroid Dimorphos on September 27. Already impressive, the images of the impact are now…
Dart probe successfully deflected asteroid from its orbit
DAccording to the US space agency Nasa, the first intentionally caused collision of a spacecraft with an asteroid was a success: The impact of the Dart probe in September reduced…
The asteroid struck by DART formed a tail of 10,000 km
Dimorphos, the asteroid hit by the DART mission, has changed. A few days after the impact, a gigantic tail of material formed behind the asteroid. Never before had humanity voluntarily…
NASA: DART probe successfully hits asteroid Dimorphos
Picture: NASA. NASA has completed its first-ever attempt to move an asteroid as part of its planetary defense strategy. The DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) probe targeted Dimorphos, a small…
After the impressive images she shared, what next for NASA’s DART mission?
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist September 27, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. 10 The small moon Dimorphos moments before the impact of the DART probe © NASA / John Hopkins APL As…
Here are stunning new images of the DART ship crashing into an asteroid
It was an asteroid deflection test, a historic first. NASA sent the DART spacecraft to crash into Dimorphos. What does such a collision look like? New images show us the…
“Dart”: this NASA probe intended to deviate the trajectory of an asteroid
Alexis Guilleux (US correspondent), edited by Romain Rouillard 9:19 p.m., September 26, 2022 On the night of Monday to Tuesday, NASA will try to deflect the trajectory of an asteroid…
NASA’s Dart probe deliberately hits an asteroid, a first!
Un small step for man, one giant leap for humanity. The Dart probe, which was to deflect a double asteroid from its trajectory on the night of Monday September 26…
How to watch NASA crash DART into asteroid Dimorphos tonight?
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist September 26, 2022 at 12:56 p.m. 6 (In reality it will rather try to crash into the one on the right, the little Dimorphos) © NASA…