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Administrative news
Published on 27 February 2018
Martin Pertenaïs awarded the 2018 MERAC prize
The 2018 MERAC Prizes for the Best Doctoral Thesis are awarded in New Technologies to Dr Martin Pertenais for a PhD thesis on cutting-edge concepts of...
Administrative news
Published on 2 February 2018
Pierre Kervella awarded the 2017 "La Recherche" Prize
On Thursday, January 31st 2018, Pierre Kervella, a Paris Observatory astronomer, received the 2017 "La Recherche" award in "Astrophysics" for his work "The...
Highlights
Published on 29 January 2018
January 31st 2018: 3 facettes for one full Moon
«Super», «blue» and «blood red»: the full Moon on January 31st 2018 will display all of these three properties simultaneously. The Institute for celestial...
News from the labs
Published on 24 January 2018
Does quantum entanglement influence the universality of free fall?
Remi Geiger (Paris Observatory) and Michael Trupke (Vienna University) have proposed a conceptually new way of testing the foundational principle of General...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 22 January 2018
"L’astronomie se la raconte" : exhibition available for loan
The "Astronomical tales" (« L’astronomie se la raconte ») exhibition is now available for loan from the Paris Observatory. Born of a collaboration involving...
Highlights
Published on 15 January 2018
Hello Earth? PicSat calling…
Orbited at 5h20 this Friday, January 12th 2018 by the Indian Space Agency ISRO, the nanosatellite PicSat responded successfully to the first command sent by...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 12 January 2018
An international astronomical dictionary for sign language
An international encyclopedic astronomical sign language dictionary was installed on line on December 7th 2017 on the International Astronomical Union site....
Highlights
Published on 11 January 2018
Launch of a French nanosatellite to solve the Beta Pictoris mysteries
PicSat will be launched on January 12th 2018 to study continuously the Beta Pictoris system, its exoplanet and its disc, using a 5cm diameter telescope. This...
Highlights
Published on 9 January 2018
The slow rotation of the red supergiant Betelgeuse
The Betelgeuse star has a rotation period of about 30 years. With this discovery, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics on January 9, 2018, a scientific...
