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Highlights
Published on 27 September 2016
Novae! lithium factories
An international team of scientists, which includes an astrophysicist from the Paris Observatory, has shown that a nova type star has a significant quantity...
Highlights
Published on 16 September 2016
A famished black hole masks out a bright galaxy
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the NASA/ESA consortium’s Hubble space telescope, and NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope, and international team of astronomers...
Highlights
Published on 16 September 2016
Publication of final data from the CoRoT
In July 2016, the CoRoT team at the Paris Observatory will make available all the data produced by the mission. The light curves of over 160 000 stars in our...
Highlights
Published on 13 September 2016
The OSIRIS-REx mission launched successfully!
The NASA mission OSIRIS-REx (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer) was launched successfully on Friday...
Highlights
Published on 8 September 2016
The internal structure of the dwarf planet Ceres revealed
The dwarf planet Ceres is «partially differentiated»: it has a rocky core surrounded by a mantle rich in volatile elements. That is what emerges from the...
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)...
Highlights
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....
Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...