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Highlights Published on 19 June 2015

New light on the dark ages of the Universe

An international team led by a scientist from the CNRS in the « Galaxies, étoiles, physique, instrumentation » laboratory (GEPI – CNRS/Paris...
Exhibitions and information Published on 16 June 2015

June 18, 2015 | an exhibition on the railings of the Paris Observatory

From Thursday 18 June to Sunday 1 November 2015 the Paris Observatory hosts to the gates of his Paris garden at 98 Boulevard Arago, a photographic exhibition...
Administrative news Published on 1 June 2015

Science Grand Prix 2015 of the Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation

The Science Grand Prix 2015 of the Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation (275 000€) on General Relativity was awarded jointly to Patrice Hello (CNRS/IN2P3,...
Administrative news Published on 26 May 2015

The memory of Jean-François Denisse honored by his peers

Jean-François Denisse passed away on the 17th of November 2014. He would have been 100 years old this year. In honour of this outstanding XXth century...
Highlights Published on 22 May 2015

The large Nançay radiotelescope is 50 years old

On the 14th of May 1965, General de Gaulle, president of the Republic, inaugurated at Nançay a large radio telescope at the radioastronomical station of the...
Exhibitions and information Published on 22 May 2015

30 to 31 May | The Paris Observatory partner of "Mysterious Lights"

The Paris Observatory supports the event "Mysterious Lights." Jointly organized by the Astronomy Club Urania, the association Diffusion Aurora and the City...
Highlights Published on 22 May 2015

Astronomers witnessed a critical step in the formation of stars

Une équipe de recherche franco-espagnole est parvenue à identifier des signes très sérieux de la présence d’un « premier cœur hydrostatique » dans une...
Highlights Published on 4 May 2015

The galactic clock caught out

The astronomers of the Paris Observatory, working in concert with an international collaboration, have discovered a group of strange red giant stars, whose...
News from the labs Published on 11 April 2015

Ubiquity of interplanetary nanodust particles from Cassini observations

An international team, led by astronomers from Paris Observatory, has measured for the first time the distribution of nanodust particles in the...
Highlights Published on 10 April 2015

Headway in mapping extragalactic interstellar organic matter

With the help of data furnished by the whole-field spectrograph MUSE, recently installed at the VLT, a team of astronomers led by Ana Monreal-Ibero from...