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July 9, 2015 - Lexus Magazine - Into the dark Is there anybody out there? It's a question we've all probably asked ourselves at some point as we stared up at the stars twinkling in the night sky. For years we humans have pondered our place in the universe, wondering if we're alone or whether life exists on other planets.Read more... |
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February 9, 2015 - ESO - Stellar Partnership Doomed to End in Catastrophe Astronomers using ESO facilities in combination with telescopes in the Canary Islands have identified two surprisingly massive stars at the heart of the planetary nebula Henize 2-428. As they orbit each other the two stars are expected to slowly get closer and closer, and when they merge, about 700 million years from now, they will contain enough material to ignite a vast supernova explosion. The results will appear online in the journal Nature on 9 February 2015.Read more... |
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January 28, 2015 - SEN - Giant telescope images God's Hand reaching into space "How and why they are this shape is relatively well known," Dr Boffin told Sen. "However, what it is crucial is to understand how such clouds give rise to baby stars - this is still a mystery of Nature. And in order to study such dark clouds, opaque to visible light, one needs to go to greater wavelengths. In particular, with ALMA, it is possible to probe the inside of the cloud, in effect doing a sonogram, as we do to see babies in their womb."Read more... |
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November 16, 2014 - Tecnociencia - El Telescopio mÃ?s grande del mundo CientÃ-ficos chilenos estÃ?n desarrollando cremas de protecciÃ?n solar con bacterias del desierto. Y en Cerro Paranal se construye el telescopio Ã?ptico-infrarrojo mÃ?s grande del mundo.Ver mas... |
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Août 4, 2014 - Daily Science - AU CHILI, HENRI BOFFIN PILOTE LE VERY LARGE TELESCOPE EUROPEEN Ils sont Belges, scientifiques et ils exercent leurs talents loin de nos frontieres. Toute cette semaine, Daily Science propose à ses lecteurs d'aller à la rencontre de ces chercheurs belges qui ont choisi l'expatriation pour faire carriÃÅre. Leurs profils et leurs motivations sont parfois trÃÅs diffÿrents.Nous commenÃons notre tour du monde avec l'astrophysicien Henri Boffin. Comme une petite dizaine d'autres Belges, il travaille à l'ESO, l'Organisation Europÿenne d'Astronomie, une organisation intergouvernementale qui emploie quelque 700 personnes. Lire plus... |
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Avril 15, 2014 - Observatoire de Paris - La phase de production du lithium dans les étoiles enfin identifiée Utilisant le VLT de l'ESO, des astronomes européens ont découvert une étoile super-riche en lithium dans un amas d'étoiles. Cette première leur permet de dÿmontrer dans quelle phase de l'évolution d'une étoile celle-ci produit le lithium, apportant ainsi une information capitale à un mystère de longue date.Lire plus... |
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Avril 10, 2014 - Science & Vie - LA NÃ%BULEUSE ABELL 33 PHOTOGRAPHIÃ%E AVEC LE VERY LARGE TELESCOPE Lâ?TESO a donc dÿcidÿ, sous la houlette des astronomes Olivier Hainaut, Henri Boffin et Richard Hook, dâ?Tutiliser les tÿlescopes des observatoires de Cerro Paranal et de La Silla Â' en astronome amateur Â' lorsque la qualitÿ du ciel est trop dÿgradÿe pour les recherches scientifiques. Dans une rÿgion du monde oÃ? le ciel est clair plus de 300 nuits par an, cela nâ?Test pas frÿquent, mais câ?Test toutefois suffisant pour obtenir des images aussi belles que celle-ci.Lire plus... |
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April 1st, 2014 - Sky & Telescope - Fooling with the Universe Using the UNnecessary WIde SurvEy nanosatellite, astronomers have discovered a nearby brown dwarf â?'
an object that isnâ?Tt massive enough to kick off nuclear fusion in its core.
â??To avoid having to use an unfortunate acronym coupled to an unpronounceable phone number name,â?? write author Henri Boffin
(Extraterrestrial Institute for the Advancement of Earth) and colleagues, â??. . . we will call this object the Death Star.â??
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March 11th, 2014 - 8 Wood TV - Studying the sky in Chile The word meteorology means the study of the sky. Normally,
meteorologists are studying whatâ?Ts in the worldâ?Ts atmosphere, but that curiosity can go beyond the clouds.
Storm Team 8 meteorologist Kyle Underwood made a journey to one of the largest telescopes on earth,
the Very Large Telescope, or VLT, in Chile.
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February 10th 2014 - The Register - El Reg talks beer and binaries with a boffin named Boffin We at El Reg like a good boffin, so we're delighted to bring fellow boffophiles a quick interview with Henri Boffin, who's staff astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) facility in Paranal, Chile.
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December 27th 2013 - "L'Express" - Deux ÿtoiles dÿcouvertes aux "portes" de la Terre Henri Boffin de l'Observatoire europÿen austral a dirigÿ une ÿquipe d'astronomes pour en savoir plus sur notre proche voisin. A l'aide de mesures astromÿtriques rassemblÿes entre avril et juin 2013, les chercheurs ont pu ÿtablir la position des deux objets. "Nous avons ÿtÿ capables de mesurer la position des deux objets avec une prÿcision de quelques milliarcsecondes*" annonce-t-il dans un communiquÿ. "C'est comme si une personne à Paris ÿtait capable de dÿterminer la position de quelqu'un à New York avec une marge d'erreur de 10 centimÃÅtres".
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December 17th 2013 - "Time Magazine" - Very Sad Planet Orbits Very Sad Star Writing in the journal Astronomy and Physics, an international team reports the tentative discovery of a brown-dwarf planet just 6.6 light years awayâ?'not merely right next door in cosmic terms, but practically in the next room. â??If confirmed,â?? says lead author Henri Boffin, of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), â??it would be one of the closest planets to Earth, except for the planet around Alpha Centauri B [4.3 light-years away].â?? That, he says, â??would allow for exquisite follow-up with next generation instruments.â??
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December 16th 2013 - "Astronomy Magazine" - Nearby failed stars may harbor planet After two-months of observations and extensive data analysis, Beletskyâ?Ts team, led by Henri Boffin of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), found that both objects have a mass between 30 and 50 Jupiter masses. By comparison, the Sun has a mass of about 1,000 Jupiter masses.
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November 2012 - "Le Soir" - Henri et les papillons cosmiques Un astronome belge perce le mysteÌ?re des neÌ?buleuses planeÌ?taires et leurs eÌ?jections de matieÌ?re.
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November 2012 - ESO 1244 - Cosmic Sprinklers Explained Planetary nebulae are glowing shells of gas around white dwarfs â?' Sun-like stars in the final stages of their lives. Fleming 1 is a beautiful example that has strikingly symmetric jets that weave into knotty, curved patterns. It is located in the southern constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur) and was discovered just over a century ago by Williamina Fleming, a former maid who was hired by Harvard College Observatory after showing an aptitude for astronomy. Astronomers have long debated how these symmetric jets could be created, but no consensus has been reached. Now, a research team led by Henri Boffin (ESO, Chile) has combined new Very Large Telescope (VLT) observations of Fleming 1 with existing computer modelling to explain in detail for the first time how these bizarre shapes came about. Read more in ESO 1244. |
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October 2012 - parmilesetoiles.fr La salle de controle est immense, une section par telescope. Nous discutons longuement avec Henri Boffin, qui fait notamment des recherches sur les nebuleuses planetaires issues -ou supposees issues- d'etoiles doubles. Il travaille sur UT1, alias Antu, le Soleil- c'est le telescope que nous utiliserons le lendemain pour faire l'observation de la nebuleuse du casque de Thor. L'Homme est passionnant, et je vous invite a lire les articles qui lui sont consacres sur la toile, ou meme a le regarder en video sur le site de l'ESO ! |
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Live VLT Observations of Thor's Helmet Nebula On 5 October 2012, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) will broadcast A Day in the Life of ESO, a free, live event on the web, as part of its 50th Anniversary celebrations. There will be live observations from ESO's flagship observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT), on Cerro Paranal in Chile's Atacama Desert, as well as fascinating talks from astronomers at ESO's Headquarters in Germany. Members of the public are invited to ask questions in advance of the event, or during the stream, by Facebook, Twitter, and email. A timetable for the webcast is available below and online.
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October 2012 - "Le Soir" - Une nuit dans la vie d'un astronome Les cinquante ans de l'Observatoire austral europÿeen (ESO) offrent a tous de multiples rendez-vous. En voici un de plus, avec le Belge Henri Boffin. L'occasion de plonger dans le quotidien d'un astronome.
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October 2012 - Décloitrés #9 - Les pieds dans le sable, la tÃ?te dans les étoiles Henri Boffin, astronome belge, appartient à la communautÿ internationale des scientifiques de l'ESO, l'Observatoire Europÿen Austral. Interview...
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"BBC" - Why Chile is an astronomer's paradise With its crystal clear skies and bone dry air, the Atacama Desert in northern Chile has long drawn astronomers. Some of the most powerful telescopes in the world are housed here.
Henri Boffin, a senior astronomer at Paranal, says the new telescope should help scientists address questions raised by the existing instruments at the observatory.
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December 2011 - Science & Vie - Dans l'intimitÿ d'un couple d'ÿtoiles L'ÿquipe de Nicolas Blind et Henri Boffin a observÿ un couple d'etoiles en interaction avec un nouvel ÿquipement du rÿseau Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) installÿ a l'observatoire de Cerro Paranal, au Chili.
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December 2011 - ESO - Vampire Star Reveals its Secrets Astronomers have obtained the best images ever of a star that has lost most of its material to a vampire companion. By combining the light captured by four telescopes at ESOâ?Ts Paranal Observatory they created a virtual telescope 130 metres across with vision 50 times sharper than the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Surprisingly, the new results show that the transfer of mass from one star to the other in this double system is gentler than expected. Read more in ESO 1148. |
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March 2011 - ESOcast 27 - An ESO Astronomer at Work Life as an ESO astronomer is demanding, but working on one of the world's most powerful telescopes is also immensely rewarding. In this episode of the ESOcast, come with us as we follow ESO astronomer Henri Boffin through his day-to-day life.
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Astronomy and the media: a love story? At the International Astronomical Union Symposium : The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture in 2009, Henri gave a speech entitled "Astronomy and the media: a love story? "
Le Temps - La course aux tÿlescopes gÿants "L'objectif est de prÿsenter un concept de rÿfÿrence au conseil de l'ESO; il devrait se prononcer à se sujet en janvier 2007, avant que commence le design final de l'objet", indique Henri Boffin, porte-parole de l'ESO.
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