María Díaz-Trigo, ESO

The brightest X-ray sources in our galaxy are X-ray binaries. In these systems, a normal star and...

Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, University College London/Mullard Space Science Laboratory

Planets, moons and comets in our solar system are the astronomical bodies...

Lionel Duband, CEA Grenoble, Service des Basses Températures (INAC/SBT)

Athena and other future space missions call for an extended lifetime...

Gabriel W. Pratt, CEA Saclay, Département d’Astrophysique

Matter in the Universe is distributed in a foam-like structure of voids and...

Arne Rau, WFI Project Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

The Wide Field Imager (WFI) will provide two defining...

Laura Brenneman¹ & Giovanni Miniutti²

(1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)

(2) Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC-INTA)

Supermassive black holes...

R. Willingale, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester

The Athena Mission will incorporate the largest X-ray primary mirror...

 Andy C. Fabian , Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

The ill-fated Hitomi satellite took its first and only...

Jelle de Plaa. SRON (Netherlands Institute for Space Research)

We are made of stardust!