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Highlights
Published on 21 June 2018
AU Microscopii and its mysterious waves…
In 2014, thanks to ESO’s SPHERE instrument, strange structures were found in the neighborhood of the star AU Microscopii. Paris Observatory astronomers have...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 5 June 2018
May 16th 2018 | The UNESCO International Day of Light
For the UNESCO 2018 International Day of Light, the Paris Observatory, in association with the group «Ars Mathematica» will organize at its Paris site a...
News from the labs
Published on 22 May 2018
A New Cosmological Ruler to track Dark Energy
To determine the characterisrtics of our Universe, and in particular the nature of the Dark Energy corresponding to 70% of its content, we must measure the...
News : teaching
Published on 16 May 2018
14th May 2018 | The Paris Observatory launches a new MOOC
The Paris Observatory launches its 4th MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), on its France Université Numérique (FUN) platform, with the title “Soleil -...
Administrative news
Published on 14 May 2018
Guillaume Voisin, awarded the IAU 2017 prize for the best thesis
On May 7th 2018, the International Astronomical Union awarded its 2017 prize for the best 2017 thesis to Guillaum Voisi, Ph.D. researcher at the Paris...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 7 May 2018
350 years of astrometry at the Paris Observatory
A pictorial panorama of astrometry at the Paris Observatory, from its beginnings to Gaia.
Highlights
Published on 4 May 2018
What does a Cherenkov telescope look like? Find out via pictures.
The Paris Observatory is setting up on its Meudon site one of the prototypes of the « Cherenkov Telescope Array ». This future This upcoming large...
Highlights
Published on 17 April 2018
Calibration campaign for SuperCam - Mars
On March 9th 2018, the qualification model for SuperCam, the instrument which will be flown on NASA’s Rover Mars2020, passed successfully a series of tests...
Highlights
Published on 10 April 2018
Solar tornadoes are not tornadoes !
In spite of their appearance, «solar tornadoes» do not rotate. That is the conclusion of a team of European scientists, among whom is an astronomer from the...
Highlights
Published on 30 March 2018
Close monitoring of the path of the Chinese space station
At the Paris Observatory, the Institute for celestial mechanics and ephemeris computation (Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul des éphémérides -...