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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...
News from the labs
Published on 25 June 2015
An exoplanet in transit, from visible to X-rays: Venus as a probe
The atoms in the upper atmosphere of planets can absorb high-energy photons (UV and soft X-rays) when passing in front of their stars, increasing their...
Highlights
Published on 19 June 2015
New light on the dark ages of the Universe
An international team led by a scientist from the CNRS in the « Galaxies, étoiles, physique, instrumentation » laboratory (GEPI – CNRS/Paris...
Highlights
Published on 22 May 2015
The large Nançay radiotelescope is 50 years old
On the 14th of May 1965, General de Gaulle, president of the Republic, inaugurated at Nançay a large radio telescope at the radioastronomical station of the...
Highlights
Published on 22 May 2015
Astronomers witnessed a critical step in the formation of stars
Une équipe de recherche franco-espagnole est parvenue à identifier des signes très sérieux de la présence d’un « premier cœur hydrostatique » dans une...
Highlights
Published on 4 May 2015
The galactic clock caught out
The astronomers of the Paris Observatory, working in concert with an international collaboration, have discovered a group of strange red giant stars, whose...