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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...
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Published on 16 October 2015
First discovery of a magnetic delta Scuti star
Coralie Neiner,CNRS scientist at the Paris Observatory, and Patricia Lampens at the Belgian Royal Observatory, have discovered the very first magnetic delta...
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Published on 9 October 2015
The NGC 4013 tale --- a new spiral from a major merger
Spiral galaxies are believed formed after an initial single collapse while mergers would result in a new galaxy with prominent and classic bulge. However, a...
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Published on 8 October 2015
The September 28th total eclipse of the Moon: up to scratch
The total eclipse of the Moon, which took place at perigee (the smallest distance from the Earth) and which spanned the period from Sunday September 27th to...
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Published on 7 October 2015
First direct observation of the dust ring of NGC 1068
Thanks to the unprecedented performance of the SPHERE instrument recently installed at the VLT, , a team of scientists led by Damien Gratadour hass been able...
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Published on 23 September 2015
Construction of the MICADO camera for the E-ELT officially starts
The contract for the construction of the MICADO camera was signed on Friday, September 18th. Destined for the future giant telescope E-ELT planned for...