2014 January: SPIROU appears in the SPIRou magazine

Following the recent decision of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) to participate to the funding of SPIRou, the SPIROU magazine is publishing a first episode of a comic strip on SPIRou – the new generation spectropolarimeter / high-precision velocimeter being developed for CFHT within an international consortium involving France, Canada, CFHT, Taiwan, Brazil, Portugal and Switzerland, and led by a team from Toulouse (IRAP / OMP / UPS).

This comic strip was created by the artist / science reporter Jean-Yves Duhoo as part of the collaboration with the SPIROU magazine that will continue throughout the whole construction of SPIRou (starting mid 2014) until first light at CFHT (planned for 2017) and the many science breakthroughs expected from this novel instrument – in particular the discovery of new habitable worlds orbiting red dwarf stars in the neighborhood of our Solar System.

By clicking on the link below, you can download this comic strip (in French), kindly made available to us by  Jean-Yves Duhoo and the éditions Dupuis.