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Published on 13 September 2016
The OSIRIS-REx mission launched successfully!
The NASA mission OSIRIS-REx (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer) was launched successfully on Friday...
Highlights
Published on 8 September 2016
The internal structure of the dwarf planet Ceres revealed
The dwarf planet Ceres is «partially differentiated»: it has a rocky core surrounded by a mantle rich in volatile elements. That is what emerges from the...
News from the labs
Published on 6 September 2016
Zooming into the skin of the Orion hunter
Combining the information from the ALMA interferometer and the IRAM-30m single-dish, an international team of astronomers led by Javier Goicoechea (CSIC)...
Highlights
Published on 19 August 2016
Optical fiber: a revolution for the comparison of atomic clocks
The first direct comparison between optical strontium clocks through a 1400 km optical fiber link has been made by a team of French and German physicists....
Highlights
Published on 25 July 2016
MeerKAT : first Light image
July 16th 2016, the MeerKAT First Light image of the sky, released today by Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, shows unambiguously that...
News from the labs
Published on 8 July 2016
The THEMIS telescope reveals the fine structure of the magnetic field at the solar surface outside of active regions
A key objective of the French THEMIS solar telescope, located in the Teide Observatory in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, is to study the magnetic field and...
Highlights
Published on 4 July 2016
Involvements of the Paris Observatory in Juno mission
After a journey of 5 years, NASA’s Juno probe will station itelf in orbit around Jupiter on July 5th at about 5h35 am, French time. Much is expected from...
Administrative news
Published on 4 July 2016
The Paris Observatory partner of the Jupiter evening at the Cité de l’Espace
To celebrate the injection of Juno into an orbit around Jupiter, the "Cité de l’espace" is organizing a special evening at Toulouse, on Monday, July 4th,...
Administrative news
Published on 1 July 2016
PSL: The fashion collection of the EnsAD photographed at the Paris Observatory
On the 3rd of June 2016, the Paris Observatory was the prestigious site for the "fashion" shooting of the 2016 alumni of the "École nationale supérieure des...
Highlights
Published on 28 June 2016
An unexpected excess of hot Jupiters within a star cluster
An international team of scientists, which includes a CNRS scientist at the Paris Observatory, has uncovered a surprising fact: the stellar cluster Messier...