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Highlights
Published on 7 July 2014
HESS-II, an observatory for very high energies, proves its worth
HESS-II, set up in Namibia and operational since 2012, is the world’s largest gamma ray observatory; it has produced its first results. They are very...
Highlights
Published on 24 June 2014
The CoRoT satellite bows out
On Tuesday, June 17th 2014, the CoRoT satellite, devised and built under the leadership of the Paris Observatory, received its last telecommand from the CNES...
Highlights
Published on 12 June 2014
First light from SPHERE, an exoplanet imager
SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimètre à Haut contraste dédié à la REcherche d’Exoplanètes – « a High Contrast Spectro-Polarimeter for Exoplanet Searches ») is one of...
Highlights
Published on 16 May 2014
ROSETTA - First images of the comet 67 P
OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System), the imaging system on board the European space probe Rosetta, has sent the first pictures...
News from the labs
Published on 29 April 2014
Herschel discovers mature galaxies in the young Universe
New Herschel results have given us a remarkable insight into the internal dynamics of two young galaxies. Surprisingly, they have shown that just a few...
Highlights
Published on 15 April 2014
The phase of lithium production in stars identified at last
Using the ESO VLT telescope a team of european astronomers has identified a super-lithium-rich star in a star cluster. This discovery allowed them to...
Highlights
Published on 1 April 2014
Progress in understanding solar eruptions
An international team has observed the mechanism of « slip-running reconnection », which underlies the creation of solar in the solar corona, leading to the...
Administrative news
Published on 20 March 2014
CNRS medallists, 2014
Two Paris Observatory scientists are nominated CNRS medallists in 2014.
Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, an astrophysicist Space Research and Instrumentation...
News from the labs
Published on 28 February 2014
MESSENGER in orbit around Mercury : new constraints for gravitation theories
The current knowledge of Mercury’s orbit has mainly been gained by direct radar ranging obtained from the 1960s to 1998 and by five Mercury flybys made with...
Highlights
Published on 12 February 2014
Rosetta target’s mission
The objective of Rosetta, an ESA space probe, is the study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This will be the first mission to try to orbit a probe around...