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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...
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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...
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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...
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Published on 22 September 2014
Construction of a next generation radiotelescope starts at Nançay
The project of a low frequency radiotelescope – the NenuFAR (New Extension in Nançay Upgrading LOFAR) - has been launched at the Paris Observatory’s Nançay...
News from the labs
Published on 15 September 2014
Light echoes from a Cepheid star yield its distance
Cepheids are variable stars, which follow a relation Period-Luminosity (P-L), allowing to determine their distance. To better calibrate this P-L relation, it...
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Published on 11 September 2014
The abundance of lithium measured for the first time beyond our galaxy
The abundance of lithium has been measured for the first time in old stars outside of our own galaxy. This has been done by an international team which...
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Published on 27 August 2014
Gaia starts its scientific observations
On the 22nd of August 2014, the ESA satellite Gaia will start its scientific observations, in its nominal sky scanning mode. At the Paris Observatory, thirty...
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Published on 25 August 2014
A temperature of -70°C on comet 67P/CG
The Rosetta probe has on board VIRTIS, a visible and infra-red imager, designed and built in part at the Paris Observatory, in its Laboratoire d’études...
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Published on 25 August 2014
Rosetta : successful rendez-vous with comet 67P/CG !
After wandering for over a decade throough the solar system, the ESA space probe Rosetta arrived on the 6th of August 2014 in the neighborhood of its...
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Published on 20 August 2014
A new model to describe the structure of galaxies
In an article published in July 2014 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the Observatory of Paris, Pierre and...