Instrumentation

Webb ready for a Christmas launch
13 September 2021

Webb ready for a Christmas launch

After more than two decades of twists and turns, challenges and successes, the James Webb…

Hot and dry: SPIRou reveals the atmosphere of hot Jupiter Tau Boötis b
28 July 2021

Hot and dry: SPIRou reveals the atmosphere of hot Jupiter Tau Boötis b

Measuring the composition of the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter Tau Boötis b more precisely…

Final tests for Webb’s sunshield
7 February 2021

Final tests for Webb’s sunshield

Despite some minor delays in the project, the James Webb Space Telescope achieved several important…

SPIRou stares at a young rebel: the AU Mic planetary system
2 February 2021

SPIRou stares at a young rebel: the AU Mic planetary system

SPIRou, the new high-precision infrared spectropolarimeter recently installed at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, has measured for…

First images for the NIRPS spectrograph
9 September 2020

First images for the NIRPS spectrograph

The NIRPS spectrograph, whose design is led by a team from the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM), the Centre d’optique photonique et laser (COPL)…

New launch date for Webb
30 August 2020

New launch date for Webb

NASA and its international partners, the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency, are…

SPIRou at La preuve par l’image
1 May 2020

SPIRou at La preuve par l’image

An image submitted by Étienne Artigau, an OMM researcher, was selected by the jury of…

JWST completely assembled for the first time
3 September 2019

JWST completely assembled for the first time

After being tested separately, the two halves of the James Webb Space Telescope have finally…

JWST Completes Critical Milestones in February 2019
3 April 2019

JWST Completes Critical Milestones in February 2019

The month of February 2019 saw the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) successfully pass a…

All systems go for exo-Earth hunter SPIRou
22 February 2019

All systems go for exo-Earth hunter SPIRou

Nine months after capturing its first images from atop Maunakea in Hawaii, the scientific instrument…