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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...