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Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...
News from the labs
Published on 8 November 2016
The Stellar Seismic Indices (SSI) data base
The oscillation spectra obtained by the CoRoT and Kepler space missions have enabled the detection of solar-type oscillations in a large number of red giant...
Highlights
Published on 7 November 2016
Discovery of a very old binary star
An international team of scientists led by a member of the Paris Observatory has discovered, with the help of ESO’s 8.2 m VLT telescope, a 13 billion year...
Highlights
Published on 7 November 2016
An inertial sensor built by the SYRTE unveils a curious quantum dance
Experimental work carried out in the SYRTE department of the Paris Observatory, followed by comparison with a theoretical model developed at the Laboratory...
Highlights
Published on 21 October 2016
The Future of Alpha Centauri A rare opportunity for planet hunting in Alpha Centauri A predicted for 2028
A very rare gravitational lensing event, set to occur in 2028, has been predicted by a team of French astronomers led by Pierre Kervella of the...
Highlights
Published on 28 September 2016
September 30th | Rosetta: follow its landing on the comet in real time
On Friday, September 30th, 2016, ESA’s space probe Rosetta will complete its mission by landing on the comet which it has been scrutinizing for over two...