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Published on 7 January 2015
2015 International Year of the Light in France
Paris’ Observatory is sponsoring the National Committee of "2015, Year of the Light in France"
News : teaching
Published on 15 December 2014
December 18th | Françoise Combes inaugural lecture, Professor at the College de France
Thursday, December 18th, 2014, at 18h, Françoise Combes, an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris, gave at the College de France the inaugural lecture of...
Administrative news
Published on 15 December 2014
The Paris Observatory winner of the 2014 Cap’Com prize
The Paris Observatory has won the Cap’Com 2014 prize in the “Understanding the Institution” category, for a communications campaign organized by 19...
Administrative news
Published on 27 November 2014
The Paris Observatory awards its Doctor Honoris Causa for 2014
The title of doctor honoris causa is the highest distinction which can be awarded by a French university. On thursday, the 13th of November 2014, during a...
Highlights
Published on 17 November 2014
The Philae has landed, with a bounce and a success of historic proportions!
The Paris Obsevatory scientists, some of whom have been involved in the Rosetta mission from the very start, lived through an nervewracking 12th of...
Highlights
Published on 7 November 2014
VIRTIS detects water and carbon dioxide in comet’s coma
In previous blog posts we’ve heard how VIRTIS is able to map the temperature of the comet’s surface. Now, as Dominique Bockelee-Morvan and Stephane Erard...
News from the labs
Published on 26 October 2014
Ionized carbon in absorption and emission to better trace the interstellar diffuse gas
Analyzing observations obtained with the Herschel satellite, an international team led by a researcher at Paris Observatory has obtained new information on...
Highlights
Published on 1 October 2014
MOONS, the project for a new spectrograph for the VLT
ESO has signed an agreement with a consortium led by the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC), for the...
Highlights
Published on 29 September 2014
Everything you ever wanted to know about venusian research – a new site
All the latest information about Venusian research is now available on the Net via the web site created by EuroVenus, a European project led by the Paris...