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Highlights
Published on 3 September 2013
The central black hole of our galaxy is the seat of a strong magnetic field
Observations carried out at the Nançay radio-astronomy facility of the Paris Observatory, coupled with other observations made worldwide, have shown that a...
Highlights
Published on 17 July 2013
Optical lattice clocks: towards a new definition of the second?
The definition of the time unit, the second, is based since 1967 on the oscillation period of the caesium atom, but it could change in a not so remote...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 25 June 2013
Exhibition "Discover New Worlds. The space mission CoRoT"
The Observatoire de Paris is presenting, at the Air and Space Museum (Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace) an exhibition entitled «Discover NEW WORLDS. The CoRoT...
Administrative news
Published on 12 June 2013
Two prizes for French astrophysics
Two scientists from Observatoire de Paris [1], Kevin Belkacem and Emmanuel Lellouch, were rewarded for their research, at the latest meeting of the Société...
Highlights
Published on 29 May 2013
Big Computation of Universe : the movie
At Observatoire de Paris, on Meudon site (Hauts-de-Seine, France) : Jean-Michel Alimi and his six-researchers team are trying to understand how the Universe...
Highlights
Published on 28 May 2013
Herschel zooms into the vicinity of black hole at the heart of our Galaxy
See what is happening in the region around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Galaxy : that is what an international team of scientists, which...
News : teaching
Published on 17 May 2013
“The Stars”
This is the latest video in a series devoted to key subjects in astronomy and astrophysics.
In this video, made on the terrace and in the Arago dome of the...
Highlights
Published on 16 May 2013
Four powerful salvos from the Sun
This is a rare happening, and a sign that our Sun’s activity wil peak in 2013: over a period spanning just 48h, astrophysicists have observed four...
Highlights
Published on 7 May 2013
Andromeda’s satellite galaxies: the relic of a major merger?
Most of the satellite galaxies of the great Andromeda galaxy are confined to a gigantic thin disc. This recent discovery has puzzled the astronomical...
Administrative news
Published on 8 April 2013
European prizes : awarded to two female resarchers from Observatoire de Paris
The European Astronomical Society EAS has awarded the 2013 prizes to two female researchers from the Observatoire de Paris. Elisabetta Caffau got the best...