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Published on 11 December 2015

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...
Published on 1 December 2015

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...
Published on 30 November 2015

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...
Published on 8 October 2015

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...
Published on 24 September 2015

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.
Published on 24 July 2015

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...
Published on 22 June 2015

Understanding the oscillations of the magnetic white dwarfs

Laboratory researchers’ Astrophysics, Instrumentation Modeling "Paris-Saclay (AIM - CNRS / CEA / Université Paris Diderot), the Military Applications...
Published on 22 June 2015

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...
Published on 19 June 2015

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...
Published on 15 June 2015

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...