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Published on 16 March 2017
Beyond the appearances: The anatomy of the Orion Jedi revealed by radio-astronomy
Using the 30 m radiotelescope of the of the Institute for millimetre radio astronomy (IRAM) in the Sierra Nevada in Spain, an international scientific team...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 7 March 2017
March 7th ... 1667: acquisition of land for the Observatory
On March 7th 1667, land was acquired for the construction of the Royal Observatory, a project initiated by Louis XIVth and Colbert in order to endow France...
Administrative news
Published on 2 March 2017
The 350th anniversary site
The Observatoire of Paris celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2017.
The 350th anniversary site marks an outstanding continuity, which reflects the fact that...
Highlights
Published on 1 February 2017
Gaia, a siren … for solar system objects
The European space mission Gaia, launched in 2013, has recently enriched the scope of its sky mapping activities through the commissioning of a daily alert...
Highlights
Published on 27 January 2017
The SuperCam project has successfully passed its CDR and begins integration
The SuperCam project successfully passed its Critical Design Review on December 7, 8 and 9 2016 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New...
Highlights
Published on 13 January 2017
Validation of the radio frequency set for the PicSat project
The frequency set of the PicSat nanosatellite, designed for the measurement of exoplanetary transits, has been validated by the IARU (International Amateur...
Highlights
Published on 5 January 2017
Quantum technologies challenged by microgravity
Physicists from the Laboratoire photonique numérique et nanosciences (CNRS/Université de Bordeaux/Institut d’optique graduate school), from the Systèmes de...
Highlights
Published on 22 December 2016
Proxima bound to Alpha Centauri
Three astronomers, one from the Observatoire de Paris, demonstrated that Proxima, the closest star to the Sun, is gravitationally linked to its two neighbors...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 12 December 2016
Contest "Instant scientist with the Cassini probe"
The 2016-2017 contest organized by the European Space Agency ESA opens on tuesday December 6th 2016. Régis Courtin, CNRS scientist at the Paaris...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 12 December 2016
340 years ago, Rømer showed that light has a finite speed
As soon as the Observatory was founded in 1667, a program to observe the jovian satellites was set up. As a direct result, in 1676 Jean-Dominique Cassini...