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Published on 31 July 2018
The longest lunar eclipse of the century
Une éclipse de Lune sera visible depuis une grande partie du territoire français ce vendredi 27 juillet 2018. L’Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul...
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Published on 31 July 2018
The perihelic opposition of Mars
Ce 27 juillet 2018, la distance entre Mars et la Terre atteint un minimum. La planète rouge sera dite en grande opposition, montrant une taille apparente et...
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Published on 13 July 2018
A unique data set for ten solar cycles
On July 11th 2018, the Paris Observatory will have accumulated 110 years worth of daily observations of the Sun. Its image collection constitutes the memory...
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Published on 12 July 2018
SPHERE discovers its first protoplanet
The SPHERE instrument, installed at ESO’s VLT has enabled one to identify for the first time a protoplanet nested within a transition disc around the star...
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Published on 3 July 2018
Hayabusa2 has reached its target, the asteroid Ryugu
On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 reached its target, the ancient asteroid Ryugu. Antonella Barucci, astronomer at the Paris...
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Published on 21 June 2018
AU Microscopii and its mysterious waves…
In 2014, thanks to ESO’s SPHERE instrument, strange structures were found in the neighborhood of the star AU Microscopii. Paris Observatory astronomers have...
News from the labs
Published on 22 May 2018
A New Cosmological Ruler to track Dark Energy
To determine the characterisrtics of our Universe, and in particular the nature of the Dark Energy corresponding to 70% of its content, we must measure the...
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Published on 4 May 2018
What does a Cherenkov telescope look like? Find out via pictures.
The Paris Observatory is setting up on its Meudon site one of the prototypes of the « Cherenkov Telescope Array ». This future This upcoming large...
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Published on 17 April 2018
Calibration campaign for SuperCam - Mars
On March 9th 2018, the qualification model for SuperCam, the instrument which will be flown on NASA’s Rover Mars2020, passed successfully a series of tests...
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Published on 10 April 2018
Solar tornadoes are not tornadoes !
In spite of their appearance, «solar tornadoes» do not rotate. That is the conclusion of a team of European scientists, among whom is an astronomer from the...