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Reconstructing a three dimensional view of stellar explosions

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.

A new website for the X-IFU

We are pleased to announce the publication of a brand-new website for the X-IFU spectrometer. This website has a new […]

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Happy Women in Science Day!

Today, as every year on 11 February, we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This year, […]

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The X-IFU Gazette #17 has been released!

Happy New Year 2021! We hope that you have all enjoyed some well-deserved holidays and came back motivated for the […]

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Happy New Year 2021

Another year is getting to an end, and 2020 will be remembered as the year of a pandemic, which affected […]

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Two years ago: The X-IFU Consortium was endorsed by ESA

On the 11th of December 2018, exactly two years ago today, I received a letter from the ESA Director of […]

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SPIE Digital Forum 2020

The international society for optics and photonics (SPIE) is organising its annual Astronomical telescopes and instrumentation Symposium. This year, the […]

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A virtual X-IFU Consortium Meeting #12

The 12th X-IFU Consortium Meeting (CM12) took place this week, from 2nd to 6th of November, 2020. Due to the […]

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The X-IFU Gazette #16 has been released!

This 16th issue opens with a short presentation of the next X-IFU Consortium meeting #12. We hope all consortium members […]

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Astronomers take actions to raise awareness on climate change

The Nature Astronomy journal has published, this Thursday, 10th of September, a series of articles written by astronomers about the […]

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Two postdoc positions to join the X-IFU team

Athena is the second large mission of the Cosmic Vision science program of the European Space Agency. Dedicated to the […]

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The X-IFU Gazette #15 has been released!

This 15th issue brings you the latest X-IFU information right before the summer break! We will start with an update […]

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