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Published on 7 November 2018
ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain
Observations by ALMA and data from the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s VLT have revealed a colossal fountain of molecular gas powered by a black hole in the...
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Published on 6 November 2018
Muquans validates its quantum gravimeter
The first commercial, compact and transportable quantum gravimeter was used during a series of measurement campaigns lasting many days by a team of...
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Published on 6 November 2018
Transparent ice on Mars!
How can one show that there is transparent ice on Mars? By the very definition of "transparent", the observer sees through the object, and so it is very...
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Published on 2 November 2018
Most Detailed Observations of Material Orbiting close to a Black Hole
ESO’s exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre...
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Published on 29 October 2018
Passage of a very bright bolide in the French sky
Un bolide très brillant a été vu ce matin du jeudi 11 octobre 2018, à 7h27 (temps légal français), dans le ciel de la moitié nord de la France, par de...
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Published on 29 October 2018
Discovery of a second non-carbon star in the Galaxy
An international team oàf scientists including French CNRS astrophysicists from the Strasbourg astronomical observatory, from the Côte d’Azur observatory...
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Published on 29 October 2018
Confirmed, a universal law opens perspectives for exoplanets
Partant de l’analyse fine des émissions radio entre Jupiter et son satellite Io, des astrophysiciens de l’Observatoire de Paris - PSL apporte une...
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Published on 21 September 2018
Milky Way churned up by galactic fender bender
The movements of over six million stars in the Milky Way have been tracked, revealing that groups of stars follow different courses as they orbit the...
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Published on 30 August 2018
Energetic lightshow at Saturn’s north pole
An international team, coordinated by an astronomer of Observatoire de Paris, using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope have taken a series of spectacular...
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Published on 31 July 2018
SuperCam: delivery of the IR spectrometer flight model
Mardi 17 juillet 2018, le Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique de l’Observatoire de Paris livre à l’Institut de recherche en...