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Highlights Published on 16 October 2015

First discovery of a magnetic delta Scuti star

Coralie Neiner,CNRS scientist at the Paris Observatory, and Patricia Lampens at the Belgian Royal Observatory, have discovered the very first magnetic delta...
Highlights Published on 9 October 2015

The NGC 4013 tale --- a new spiral from a major merger

Spiral galaxies are believed formed after an initial single collapse while mergers would result in a new galaxy with prominent and classic bulge. However, a...
Highlights Published on 8 October 2015

The September 28th total eclipse of the Moon: up to scratch

The total eclipse of the Moon, which took place at perigee (the smallest distance from the Earth) and which spanned the period from Sunday September 27th to...
Highlights Published on 7 October 2015

First direct observation of the dust ring of NGC 1068

Thanks to the unprecedented performance of the SPHERE instrument recently installed at the VLT, , a team of scientists led by Damien Gratadour hass been able...
News : teaching Published on 25 September 2015

On line opening of the Paris Observatory’s first MOOC

On September 14 2015, the Paris Observatory opens on line its very first MOOC «Weighing the Universe», on the platform France Université Numérique (FUN)....
Highlights Published on 23 September 2015

Construction of the MICADO camera for the E-ELT officially starts

The contract for the construction of the MICADO camera was signed on Friday, September 18th. Destined for the future giant telescope E-ELT planned for...
Highlights Published on 18 September 2015

Shipped in Chile, GRAVITY was successfully tested

Instrument partly designed and built at the Observatory of Paris at the Laboratory for Space Studies and Astrophysics Instrumentation (LESIA), GRAVITY...
Highlights Published on 15 September 2015

The law of magnetic helicity in the process of confirmation

Appliquée jusqu’à présent dans un cadre hypothétique comme une loi de conservation, l’hélicité magnétique intervient pour mesurer le niveau de torsion et...
Exhibitions and information Published on 24 August 2015

June 27, 2015 | Exhibition "Comets" at the Museum of Air and Space

The Paris Observatory is a partner of the exhibition "Comets: the origins of planetary systems" to be held at the Museum of Air and Space, of June 27, 2015...
News from the labs Published on 21 August 2015

Is the black hole in NGC 1277 really obese?

It is well known that each galaxy hosts in its nucleus a super-massive black hole, of mass equal to 0.2-1% of its bulge mass. Recently a few exceptions of...