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Highlights
Published on 12 December 2013
Successful launch for Gaia !
ESA’s Gaia mission blasted off Thursday december, 19th on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its exciting mission to study a...
Highlights
Published on 29 November 2013
The fate of comet ISON
Comet ISON is officially dead : dixit circular CBET 3731 published on December 1st 2013 by the International Astronomical Union.
Highlights
Published on 15 November 2013
The Herschel conference: an overview of the new discoveries
Close to 350 scientists associated with the European space observatory Herschel met in Holland from the 15th to the 18th of October 2013 for a conference...
Highlights
Published on 15 November 2013
ISON: the comet of the century?
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) – discovered on September 21st 2012 thanks to a 40 cm telescope of the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) in Russie –...
Administrative news
Published on 14 November 2013
Two blockbuster theses involving a compact gravimeter project
Two Ph.D. students at the Paris Observatory, Adèle Hilico and Sophie Pélisson, have won prestigious prizes for the excellence of their work at the Paris...
Administrative news
Published on 13 November 2013
The Eclipse: an opportunity to increase science awareness in Africa
A solar eclipse took place on Sunday, November 3rd, 2013. It was visible from parts of Africa, and in particular from Gabon This spectacular event furnished...
Highlights
Published on 13 November 2013
SPIRou : involvement of the Ile-de-France Region
The Île-de-France region is providing financial support for SPIRou, a very promising next generation instrumental project destined for the Canada France...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 13 November 2013
Exhibition: Gaia, the deep sky
Gaia, an ESA satellite, will be launched in December 2013. Objective : to map, with unprecedented precision, the positions, motions and physical properties...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 13 November 2013
Two exhibitions at the Paris Observatory
The Paris Observatory is housing, exceptionally, two exhibitions in
its historical building in Paris; these exhibitions present the remarkable celestial...
News : teaching
Published on 8 October 2013
Reception for the FsU
Reception for the Diplôme d’Université en ligne "Fenêtres sur l’Univers" ("Window on the Universe"): the pedagogical team will receive the students enrolled...