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Published on 8 December 2016
Nearby ageing star previews the future of Solar system planets
Five billion years from now, the Sun will grow into a red giant star, more than a hundred times larger than its current size. It will also experience an...
Highlights
Published on 22 November 2016
Study of dry ice on Rosetta’s comet
The work of Filacchione et al.,published in the November 17th 2016 issue of Science, to which have contributed scientists from the Paris Observatory,...
Highlights
Published on 21 November 2016
Study of the water ice on Rosetta’s comet
The work of Fornasier et al. (2016) published on line in the November 17 november 2016 issue of Science shows how the colours of the nucleus of comet...
Highlights
Published on 21 November 2016
Studies of the ice on Rosetta’s comet
Two online papers in the November 17th 2016 issue of the journal Science, to which have contributed two Paris Observatory scientist, furnish new information...
Highlights
Published on 17 November 2016
ESO’s SPHERE instrument yields high resolution images of protoplanetary discs
The recent publication in November 2016, by three international teams of asgtronomers, which include scientists from the Paris Observatory’s Laboratory for...
Highlights
Published on 16 November 2016
November 14th 2016: a super Moon
November 14th 2016 will witness a super Moon. The Institute for celestial mechanics and ephemeris computation of the Paris Observatory has made some...
Highlights
Published on 10 November 2016
French researchers push forward radio image quality in view of the SKA telescope
Thursday 10 November 2016 - Novel image processing techniques have been discussed today at the 2016 SKA Science Conference in Goa, India, as French...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 9 November 2016
Meet our sky researchers
Organisées par l’Association française d’astronomie, les Rencontres du Ciel et de l’espace auront lieu cette année les 11, 12 et 13 novembre 2016 à la Cité...
News from the labs
Published on 8 November 2016
The Stellar Seismic Indices (SSI) data base
The oscillation spectra obtained by the CoRoT and Kepler space missions have enabled the detection of solar-type oscillations in a large number of red giant...
Highlights
Published on 7 November 2016
Discovery of a very old binary star
An international team of scientists led by a member of the Paris Observatory has discovered, with the help of ESO’s 8.2 m VLT telescope, a 13 billion year...