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News from the labs
Published on 6 September 2016
Zooming into the skin of the Orion hunter
Combining the information from the ALMA interferometer and the IRAM-30m single-dish, an international team of astronomers led by Javier Goicoechea (CSIC)...
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Published on 19 August 2016
Optical fiber: a revolution for the comparison of atomic clocks
The first direct comparison between optical strontium clocks through a 1400 km optical fiber link has been made by a team of French and German physicists....
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Published on 25 July 2016
MeerKAT : first Light image
July 16th 2016, the MeerKAT First Light image of the sky, released today by Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, shows unambiguously that...
News from the labs
Published on 8 July 2016
The THEMIS telescope reveals the fine structure of the magnetic field at the solar surface outside of active regions
A key objective of the French THEMIS solar telescope, located in the Teide Observatory in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, is to study the magnetic field and...
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Published on 4 July 2016
Involvements of the Paris Observatory in Juno mission
After a journey of 5 years, NASA’s Juno probe will station itelf in orbit around Jupiter on July 5th at about 5h35 am, French time. Much is expected from...
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Published on 28 June 2016
An unexpected excess of hot Jupiters within a star cluster
An international team of scientists, which includes a CNRS scientist at the Paris Observatory, has uncovered a surprising fact: the stellar cluster Messier...
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Published on 28 June 2016
GRAVITY probing the physics of black holes
For the first time, the newest instrument of all, GRAVITY, was used by a European teeam of scientists - which includes astronomers from the Paris...
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Published on 8 June 2016
Black Hole Fed by Cold Intergalactic Deluge
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has witnessed a cosmic weather event that has never been...
News from the labs
Published on 7 May 2016
Star Formation and Feedback: A Molecular Outflow–Prestellar Core Interaction in L1689N
The molecular cloud L1689N contains a prestellar core, characterized by a high deuteration level, indicating of high density and freeze-out of molecules on...
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Published on 20 April 2016
Details about the transit of Mercury .....
On Monday, May 9th, 2016 will arise a rare astronomical phenomenon: the passage of Mercury in front of the Sun.