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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...
Highlights
Published on 10 February 2014
GAIA first pictures
On thursday February 6th, the Gaia satellite unveiled its "first" image of a field of stars.
Highlights
Published on 20 January 2014
Wake up Rosetta !
Rosetta : a European interplanetary mission mission to fly over and do an in situ analysis of a comet.
A world première! Monday, January 20th at 11h will be...
Highlights
Published on 20 January 2014
Rosetta and Paris’ Observatory
L’Observatoire de Paris est associé depuis l’origine à la mission Rosetta, à travers l’implication de deux de ses unités de recherche : le Laboratoire...
Highlights
Published on 15 January 2014
Gaia has arrived!
On January 14, with a last important burn, Gaia was injected into its operating orbit, which consists of extended loops around the Lagrange point L2, called...