École normale supérieure de Lyon

Publication of the LGL-TPE in the journal Nature Astronomy on May 22, 2024. Communication by CNRS Earth & Space on June 19, 2024.

Roland Bacon, CNRS Emeritus Research Director at CRAL, is awarded the EAS 2024 Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture.

Gilles Chabrier, Emeritus CNRS Research Director in CRAL AstroENS team, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Exeter, receives the prestigious Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, for his outstanding contributions to astrophysics and galactic astronomy.

Publication of the CRAL in the journal Science on March 30, 2023. Communication of the CNRS-INSU on April 14, 2023.

Isabelle Baraffe, member of the CRAL, is Professor of Astrophysics on secondment at the University of Exeter, UK. She is awarded the EAS 2023 Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture.

Teams of the Lyon Astrophysics Research Center have finalized the reintegration in Germany of two spectrographs of the 4MOST instrument, intended to equip the VISTA telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile.
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The CRAL participates in the realization of spectrographs that will equip the next large telescopes to help us probe the Universe.

CRAL publication in MNRAS, on September 16, 2021. CNRS press release on September 16, 2021.

CRAL publication in Nature Astronomy on September 13, 2021. 

Communication from the 4MOST consortium on March 14, 2021.

CNRS press release on March 18, 2021. Publication of CRAL in Astronomy & Astrophysics on March 18, 2021.

Publication of CRAL in Nature Astronomy on January 11, 2021. 

ESO scientific press release on January 11, 2021. Publication of CRAL in Nature Astronomy on January 11, 2021.

Isabelle Baraffe, professor at CRAL (ENS de Lyon / CNRS / UCBL), is the recipient of the prestigious Viktor Ambartsumian International Scientific Prize.

Publication by CRAL, in Nature Astronomy, on September 16, 2019