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Published on 19 December 2013

La recherche française : acteur majeur du satellite Gaia

Le satellite européen Gaia, lancé le 19 décembre 2013 depuis le centre spatial guyanais, est le fruit de quinze ans d’efforts fournis par plus de 400...
Published on 21 October 2013

EuroVenus: a pan-European Venus research initiative is launched.

Venus is Earth’s twin sister and nearest neighbour. It was created at the same time as Earth and Mars, out of the same materials, and is almost exactly the...
Published on 11 July 2013

Dust in the neighborhood of stellar habitable zones

An international team, which includes scientists from the Paris Observatory (Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et d’Instrumentation en Astrophysique LESIA...
Published on 28 June 2013

Mission accomplie pour le satellite CoRoT

Après une mission deux fois plus longue que prévu, le satellite CoRoT du CNES, capable d’écouter la musique des étoiles et de chasser les exoplanètes, va...
Published on 30 April 2013

At the far end of the solar system, the view from Herschel

Billions of kilometers from the Sun, the exploration of primitive objects is progressing at the far end of the solar system. Thanks to the European Space...
Published on 23 April 2013

Water in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere comes from SL9 comet

Nearly all the water present in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere today comes from the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which collided with the planet in July 1994. Using...
Published on 8 March 2013

Extreme black holes : new tracers of the accelerated expansion of the universe

An international collaboration of astronomers which includes a CNRS researcher from the Laboratoire d’étude du rayonnement et de la matière en astrophysique...
Published on 5 February 2013

At the 3rd stroke…, the speaking clock will be 80 years old

On the 14th of February, one of our national assets, the speaking clock, will celebrate its 80th anniversary at the Paris Observatory, where it was born....