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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...
Highlights
Published on 7 November 2016
An inertial sensor built by the SYRTE unveils a curious quantum dance
Experimental work carried out in the SYRTE department of the Paris Observatory, followed by comparison with a theoretical model developed at the Laboratory...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 4 November 2016
The Paris Observatory: partner of the Space Caravan in Morocco
From the 27th to the 29th of September 2016, about fifteen Ph.D. students from the Paris Observatory will be involved in an original scientific...
Highlights
Published on 21 October 2016
The Future of Alpha Centauri A rare opportunity for planet hunting in Alpha Centauri A predicted for 2028
A very rare gravitational lensing event, set to occur in 2028, has been predicted by a team of French astronomers led by Pierre Kervella of the...
Administrative news
Published on 18 October 2016
CoRoT Legacy day September 30th Paris Observatory
Ten years after the launch from Baïkonour with a Soyuz II-1-b rocket, the CoRoT community has celebrated the final updated release of the CoRoT data and the...
Highlights
Published on 28 September 2016
September 30th | Rosetta: follow its landing on the comet in real time
On Friday, September 30th, 2016, ESA’s space probe Rosetta will complete its mission by landing on the comet which it has been scrutinizing for over two...
Highlights
Published on 27 September 2016
Novae! lithium factories
An international team of scientists, which includes an astrophysicist from the Paris Observatory, has shown that a nova type star has a significant quantity...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 23 September 2016
The 170 years of the discovery of Neptune
170 years ago, Le Verrier became the most famous astronomer of the 19th century, because he discovered the 8th planet of the solar system, Neptune. The...