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Published on 14 April 2016
Upcoming event visible in France: the solar transit of Mercury
A rare astronomical phenomenon will take place on monday, 9th of May: the solar transit of Mercury.
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Published on 18 March 2016
MOSAIC, the Multi-Object Spectrograph of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)
On March 18, 2016, during the MOSAIC kick-off meeting at the Paris Observatory in the presence of the team(*) led by François Hammer, The European Southern...
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Published on 4 February 2016
Just 30 years ago took place the unique overview of Uranus ...
On January 24, 1986, exactly 30 years ago, the Voyager2 mission flew over Uranus, the seventh planet of the solar system. This unique exploration has never...
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Published on 19 January 2016
First critical edition of the work of Copernicus
De revolutionibus Orbium coelestium, the work of Nicolas Copernicus famous, now has a critical edition of the Latin text with French translation. To...
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Published on 19 January 2016
First Cherenkov light "Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope"
On 26 November 2015, the "Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope" (TAG), telescope prototype proposed for future large international network "Cherenkov Telescope...
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Published on 14 January 2016
Water-ice provides clues to comet’s evolution
The infrared VIRTIS imaging spectrometer Rosetta has detected the presence of water ice on the surface of the comet, in the area of Imhotep, in two separate...
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Published on 24 November 2015
First image of the visible photosphere of a star other than the Sun
Using the new extreme adaptive optics system SPHERE of ESO’s Very Large Telescope, an international team led by a Paris Observatory astronomer has obtained...
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Published on 24 November 2015
2 000 exoplanets registered…
Even as we celebrated recently the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet 51 Peg b,announced on October 6th 1995, the Encyclopaedia of...
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Published on 23 November 2015
Old observations in a new light
A project to digitize old phtographic plates, carried out by an international team which includes scientists from the Institute for celestial mechanics and...