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Published on 13 January 2017
Validation of the radio frequency set for the PicSat project
The frequency set of the PicSat nanosatellite, designed for the measurement of exoplanetary transits, has been validated by the IARU (International Amateur...
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Published on 5 January 2017
Quantum technologies challenged by microgravity
Physicists from the Laboratoire photonique numérique et nanosciences (CNRS/Université de Bordeaux/Institut d’optique graduate school), from the Systèmes de...
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Published on 22 December 2016
Proxima bound to Alpha Centauri
Three astronomers, one from the Observatoire de Paris, demonstrated that Proxima, the closest star to the Sun, is gravitationally linked to its two neighbors...
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Published on 8 December 2016
Nearby ageing star previews the future of Solar system planets
Five billion years from now, the Sun will grow into a red giant star, more than a hundred times larger than its current size. It will also experience an...
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Published on 22 November 2016
Study of dry ice on Rosetta’s comet
The work of Filacchione et al.,published in the November 17th 2016 issue of Science, to which have contributed scientists from the Paris Observatory,...
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Published on 21 November 2016
Study of the water ice on Rosetta’s comet
The work of Fornasier et al. (2016) published on line in the November 17 november 2016 issue of Science shows how the colours of the nucleus of comet...
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Published on 21 November 2016
Studies of the ice on Rosetta’s comet
Two online papers in the November 17th 2016 issue of the journal Science, to which have contributed two Paris Observatory scientist, furnish new information...
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Published on 17 November 2016
ESO’s SPHERE instrument yields high resolution images of protoplanetary discs
The recent publication in November 2016, by three international teams of asgtronomers, which include scientists from the Paris Observatory’s Laboratory for...
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Published on 16 November 2016
November 14th 2016: a super Moon
November 14th 2016 will witness a super Moon. The Institute for celestial mechanics and ephemeris computation of the Paris Observatory has made some...
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Published on 10 November 2016
French researchers push forward radio image quality in view of the SKA telescope
Thursday 10 November 2016 - Novel image processing techniques have been discussed today at the 2016 SKA Science Conference in Goa, India, as French...