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Published on 13 September 2017
September 15th 2017 | End of the Cassini mission
On Friday, 15th of September 2017, the Cassini-Huygens probe will dive once and for all into Saturn. A historic event which will be shown in real time at...
News from the labs
Published on 3 September 2017
Large reservoirs of cold molecular gas at high-redshift
August 24th, 2017 — Galaxies in the early time had not yet formed a lot of stars, but were essentially made of gas. This gas can now be observed with ALMA...
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Published on 27 June 2017
A huge bright spot on the surface of Betelgeuse revealed by ALMA
An article dated June 20th 2017 published in the European journal Astronomy & Astrophysics describes how an international team of scientists, including...
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Published on 19 June 2017
Delivery of the qualification model of SuperCam’s IR spectrometer
On June 9th 2017, the LESIA will deliver the qualification model of
the infra-red spectrometer of the SuperCam instrument.
News from the labs
Published on 2 June 2017
Radio shows from Jupiter seen by Juno
Le 26 mai 2017 est paru un numéro spécial de la revue « Geophysical Research Letters » rassemblant plus d’une quarantaine d’articles portant sur l’analyse...
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Published on 20 April 2017
April 19th 2017: surprise visit of a large asteroid!
On Wednesday April 19th 2017 à 14h23French civil time, the asteroid "2014 JO25" will pass by the Earth at a distance of 1,8 million km. The astronomers...
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Published on 30 March 2017
The collapse of a cliff reveals the original composition of comet 67P
In a paper published in the March 21st 2017 issue of /Nature Astronomy/ , an international tema of scientists, which includes a Paris Observatory scientist,...
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Published on 16 March 2017
Beyond the appearances: The anatomy of the Orion Jedi revealed by radio-astronomy
Using the 30 m radiotelescope of the of the Institute for millimetre radio astronomy (IRAM) in the Sierra Nevada in Spain, an international scientific team...
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Published on 1 February 2017
Gaia, a siren … for solar system objects
The European space mission Gaia, launched in 2013, has recently enriched the scope of its sky mapping activities through the commissioning of a daily alert...
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Published on 27 January 2017
The SuperCam project has successfully passed its CDR and begins integration
The SuperCam project successfully passed its Critical Design Review on December 7, 8 and 9 2016 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New...