© CNRS Images - 2008

On another planet...

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2135

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00:05:00

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2008

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For the first edition of the Cinémascience festival in Bordeaux, a laboratory in Aquitaine is in the limelight with Franck Selsis, astronomer at the Bordeaux Astrophysics Laboratory, and Sean Raymond, astronomer at the University of Colorado, presenting their activities.
They study exoplanets, which are outside our solar system. Despite the far distance involved, we can learn many things about them, including the composition of their atmospheres. It is then possible to reconstruct their history and perhaps finally know ours based on theirs.

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