Communiqués de presse de 2015
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2015 Award of the Astronomical Society of France
Suzy Collin-Zahn, emeritus astronomer of the Paris Observatory, and Rafael Rebolo, director of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canarias (IAC) are...
Launch of LISA Pathfinder: gravitational waves hunt intensifies
In the night of 2 to 3 December, was launched LISA Pathfinder, a satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) which contributed the Astroparticle and...
Inauguration at the Paris Observatory of the « Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope »
On December 1st 2015, the Paris Observatory, on its Meudon site, will inaugurate the prototype for a new kind of telescope: the Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope...
Mysterious Ripples Found Racing Through Planet-forming Disc
Using images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered never-before-seen structures within a dusty...
Rosetta reveals comet’s water-ice cycle
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has provided evidence for a daily water-ice cycle on and near the surface of comets.
August 3rd, 2015 | Inauguration of the Observatory of Saint-Veran
On the highest village in Europe, in the Regional Natural Park of Queyras at 2936m, the Pic de Châteaurenard, under a sky predestined for observing the...
Understanding the oscillations of the magnetic white dwarfs
Laboratory researchers’ Astrophysics, Instrumentation Modeling "Paris-Saclay (AIM - CNRS / CEA / Université Paris Diderot), the Military Applications...
SPHERE reveals the beginnings of the formation of a planetary nebula
Some of the best resolved images ever obtained by the ESO Very Large Telescope have for the first time allowed to witness the transformation of an old star...
A leap second during the night of June 30th to July 1st 2015
On the 1st of July 2015, at 2 o’clock in France, all time pieces should be adjusted to read just one second less. Quite exceptionally, the minute...
The Observatoire de Paris launches its first MOOC
Grand établissement de recherche et d’enseignement en astronomie et en
astrophysique, l’Observatoire de Paris lance, sur la plateforme France
Université...