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Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
Published on 18 September 2015
Shipped in Chile, GRAVITY was successfully tested
Instrument partly designed and built at the Observatory of Paris at the Laboratory for Space Studies and Astrophysics Instrumentation (LESIA), GRAVITY...
Highlights
Published on 15 September 2015
The law of magnetic helicity in the process of confirmation
Appliquée jusqu’à présent dans un cadre hypothétique comme une loi de conservation, l’hélicité magnétique intervient pour mesurer le niveau de torsion et...
News from the labs
Published on 21 August 2015
Is the black hole in NGC 1277 really obese?
It is well known that each galaxy hosts in its nucleus a super-massive black hole, of mass equal to 0.2-1% of its bulge mass. Recently a few exceptions of...
Highlights
Published on 3 August 2015
Stop on the leap second
On July 1, 2015, at 2 am in France, it is necessary to delay the watches of a second.
Highlights
Published on 28 July 2015
Inauguration of the GATE platform in Meudon
Wednesday, June 24, 2015, the Paris Observatory, CNRS and CEA and the Region Ile de France inaugurated the platform Gamma-ray Telescope Elements (GATE) to...