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Published on 4 October 2017
4th Oct. 2017 | 40th anniversary of the Nançay decameter array
On October 4th 2017, the decameter array at the Nançay radio-astronomical station will celebrate 40 years of uninterrupted observation and work. It has...
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Published on 4 October 2017
Focus on 40 years of observation with the Nançay decameter array
Modernized over time since its commissioning at the end of 1977, the Nançay decameter array (NDA) of the Nançay radio astronomy station distinguished itself...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 3 October 2017
October 2nd 2017 | Public inauguration of the Arago statue
On October 2, 2017, a bronze statue of François Arago (1786-1853), a contemporary work of the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye, was inaugurated in the gardens of...
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Published on 3 October 2017
Alain Brillet et Thibault Damour, 2017 CNRS gold medallists
On Wednesday, September 27th 2017, the physicists Alain Brillet and Thibault Damour will receive the 2017 CNRS gold medal for their major contributions to...
News from the labs
Published on 27 September 2017
CTA Releases its Updated Science Case
September 24th, 2017 — The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the foremost global observatory for very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy over the next...
Administrative news
Published on 20 September 2017
Ceremony and lecture – Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award 2017
21 September, 2017, Françoise Combes, Astrophysicist at the Observatory of Paris, LERMA, France, is the winner of the Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award 2017....
Highlights
Published on 13 September 2017
September 15th 2017 | End of the Cassini mission
On Friday, 15th of September 2017, the Cassini-Huygens probe will dive once and for all into Saturn. A historic event which will be shown in real time at...
News from the labs
Published on 3 September 2017
Large reservoirs of cold molecular gas at high-redshift
August 24th, 2017 — Galaxies in the early time had not yet formed a lot of stars, but were essentially made of gas. This gas can now be observed with ALMA...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 23 August 2017
The Sun Eclipse of August 21, 2017
Cette éclipse n’est vue dans sa totalité que depuis les Etats-Unis. Les habitants de la Bretagne et des DOM-TOM d’Amérique ne la verront que très partielle...
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Published on 27 June 2017
A huge bright spot on the surface of Betelgeuse revealed by ALMA
An article dated June 20th 2017 published in the European journal Astronomy & Astrophysics describes how an international team of scientists, including...