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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...
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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...