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Published on 15 January 2018
Hello Earth? PicSat calling…
Orbited at 5h20 this Friday, January 12th 2018 by the Indian Space Agency ISRO, the nanosatellite PicSat responded successfully to the first command sent by...
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Published on 11 January 2018
Launch of a French nanosatellite to solve the Beta Pictoris mysteries
PicSat will be launched on January 12th 2018 to study continuously the Beta Pictoris system, its exoplanet and its disc, using a 5cm diameter telescope. This...
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Published on 9 January 2018
The slow rotation of the red supergiant Betelgeuse
The Betelgeuse star has a rotation period of about 30 years. With this discovery, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics on January 9, 2018, a scientific...
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Published on 1 December 2017
A series of super Moons !
Three super Moons will be here, one after the other : December 3rd 2017, followed by ones on the 1st and the 31st of January 2018. The Paris Observatory’s...
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Published on 20 October 2017
MOSAIC for the ELT: A Gigantic Step into the Deep Universe
The proposed MOSAIC multi-object spectrograph will be the workhorse instrument for the future Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the biggest visible/infrared...
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Published on 12 October 2017
October 12th 2017, the asteroïd 2012 TC4 will cross the Earth’s orbit
On Thursday, October 12th 2017 at 5h42 UTC, at 7h42 French time, the asteroïd number 2012 TC4 will cross the Earth’s orbit, at a distance of 50 151 km from...
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Published on 4 October 2017
4th Oct. 2017 | 40th anniversary of the Nançay decameter array
On October 4th 2017, the decameter array at the Nançay radio-astronomical station will celebrate 40 years of uninterrupted observation and work. It has...
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Published on 4 October 2017
Focus on 40 years of observation with the Nançay decameter array
Modernized over time since its commissioning at the end of 1977, the Nançay decameter array (NDA) of the Nançay radio astronomy station distinguished itself...
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Published on 3 October 2017
Alain Brillet et Thibault Damour, 2017 CNRS gold medallists
On Wednesday, September 27th 2017, the physicists Alain Brillet and Thibault Damour will receive the 2017 CNRS gold medal for their major contributions to...
News from the labs
Published on 27 September 2017
CTA Releases its Updated Science Case
September 24th, 2017 — The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the foremost global observatory for very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy over the next...