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Administrative news
Published on 2 February 2016
The 2015 Treasures of the Library of the Paris Observatory
The Library of the Paris Observatory aims to gather and keep all documents relating to astronomy, astrophysics and the history of these disciplines. A point...
Highlights
Published on 19 January 2016
First critical edition of the work of Copernicus
De revolutionibus Orbium coelestium, the work of Nicolas Copernicus famous, now has a critical edition of the Latin text with French translation. To...
Highlights
Published on 19 January 2016
First Cherenkov light "Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope"
On 26 November 2015, the "Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope" (TAG), telescope prototype proposed for future large international network "Cherenkov Telescope...
Highlights
Published on 14 January 2016
Water-ice provides clues to comet’s evolution
The infrared VIRTIS imaging spectrometer Rosetta has detected the presence of water ice on the surface of the comet, in the area of Imhotep, in two separate...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 7 December 2015
The Paris Observatory, partner to the First Light exhibition
The Paris Observatory is a partner to First Light, an exhibition on the frontier of art and science, conceived by the artist Lily Hibberd, on show at the...
Highlights
Published on 24 November 2015
First image of the visible photosphere of a star other than the Sun
Using the new extreme adaptive optics system SPHERE of ESO’s Very Large Telescope, an international team led by a Paris Observatory astronomer has obtained...
Highlights
Published on 24 November 2015
2 000 exoplanets registered…
Even as we celebrated recently the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet 51 Peg b,announced on October 6th 1995, the Encyclopaedia of...
Highlights
Published on 23 November 2015
Old observations in a new light
A project to digitize old phtographic plates, carried out by an international team which includes scientists from the Institute for celestial mechanics and...
News from the labs
Published on 18 November 2015
The jet from a black hole drives multiple winds in a nearby galaxy
Massive black holes residing in the centers of galaxies are extremely powerful energy sources, able to disrupt or damage a large part of their galaxies by...