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Rescuing Integral: No thrust? No problem
A year ago tomorrow, a failure on the Integral spacecraft meant it fired its thrusters for likely the last time. In the days since, the spacecraft in Earth orbit has continued to...
News SciencesJuly 16, 2021 -
Dead star emits never-before seen mix of radiation
Something that has never been seen before in this type of star, and may solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.
News SciencesJuly 28, 2020 -
Two-year extensions confirmed for ESA's...
ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) has today confirmed two-year mission extensions for nine scientific missions in which the Agency is participating. This secures their...
News SciencesNovember 22, 2016 -
High mass X-ray binaries trace the Milky Way...
Observations of the sky with high energy, in particular with the INTEGRAL spacecraft, allowed to discover numerous X binary sources of big mass in the Milky Way.
News Sciences Science and technologyMarch 4, 2013 -
Integral deciphers diffuse signature of cosmic-...
Astronomers exploiting six years worth of data from ESA's INTEGRAL mission have pinned down the individual processes contributing to the high-energy Galactic interstellar...
News SciencesDecember 23, 2011 -
ESA spacecraft reveals new anatomy around a black...
A fleet of spacecraft including ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral have shown unprecedented details close to a supermassive black hole. They reveal huge 'bullets' of gas...
News SciencesSeptember 29, 2011 -
First gamma-ray polarization measurements around...
Prototype of the X-ray binary systems harboring a black hole, Cygnus X-1 is the subject of many studies since its discovery in the 1960s. By studying its behavior at high energy,...
News SciencesMarch 24, 2011
