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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...
News from the labs
Published on 18 November 2015
The jet from a black hole drives multiple winds in a nearby galaxy
Massive black holes residing in the centers of galaxies are extremely powerful energy sources, able to disrupt or damage a large part of their galaxies by...
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Published on 13 November 2015
October 31, 2015: surprise visit an asteroid!
Le samedi 31 octobre 2015 à 18h18 en temps légal français, l’astéroïde baptisé 2015 TB145 va passer au plus près de la Terre. Les astronomes de l’Institut de...
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Published on 23 October 2015
Researchers find ethyl alcohol and sugar in a comet!
An international team led by French researchers from LESIA (Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique – Observatoire de Paris /...
News from the labs
Published on 20 October 2015
GAIA: A year of science observations
272 billions of astrometric measurements (positions), 54.4 billions of photometric observations (apparent luminosities) and 5.4 billions of spectra: this is...
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Published on 19 October 2015
Comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko is a binary object
According to a study presented in the journal Nature, involving the participation of researchers from Paris Observatory, from the Laboratory for Space...