Conference on COROT

The IRIS association is putting on a free conference, open to all. Entitled “COROT cherche... et trouve des planets” (COROT is looking for... and finding planets), it is hosted by Claire Moutou, an astrophysicist from the LAM, the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory. We would reiterate that COROT is a space telescope belonging to the CNES devoted to the search for exoplanets, planets that orbit suns other than our own.

The conference is to take place on Tuesday 9 March at 21.00 at the CIQ Saint Jean in La Ciotat (Bouches-du-Rhône, France).

IRIS association website

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