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From the calcium in our bones to the iron in our blood, and oxygen we breathe, are largely the result of stellar processes, particularly supernovae. In the well known sentence "we are all made of stars," we acknowledge our cosmic heritage and the role of these stellar explosions in making life possible.
Our colleague Graziella Branduardi-Raymont – Member of the Athena/X-IFU Science Advisory Team – passed away unexpectedly last week.
The X-IFU Consortium meeting #16 will take place in Toulouse on June 19th-23rd in hybrid format. It will provide the […]
Following the necessity to bring the ESA Cost at Completion below €1.3 billion, the Athena mission and the X-IFU have entered a reformulation phase in 2022.
2022 was a rather intense year for X-IFU with the unanticipated effects of the cost overrun of the Athena mission. […]
A New X-IFU has arrived! From 29 November to 1st December, 186 women and men gathered online for the 15th X-IFU Consortium […]
Welcome to the 22nd issue of the X-IFU Gazette! In this issue, the X-IFU Project Manager, Vincent Albouys, gives us […]
Image credit: © ESO The astronomer Carl Sagan once said: “We are made of stardust”. This is, to a large […]
The test platform developed by IRAP and CNES in Toulouse is a key element of the demonstration of the detection […]
Welcome to the 21st issue of the X-IFU Gazette! 2022 is an important year for the X-IFU, and we are […]
All the galaxies in the Universe host a supermassive black hole of unknown origin at their center and the mass of the black hole…
Today, on 11 February, we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. For this occasion, the X-IFU […]
We are pleased to announce the first edition of the Athena School: “The Universe in the era of spatially resolved, […]
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