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News from the labs
Published on 11 April 2015
Ubiquity of interplanetary nanodust particles from Cassini observations
An international team, led by astronomers from Paris Observatory, has measured for the first time the distribution of nanodust particles in the...
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Published on 10 April 2015
Headway in mapping extragalactic interstellar organic matter
With the help of data furnished by the whole-field spectrograph MUSE, recently installed at the VLT, a team of astronomers led by Ana Monreal-Ibero from...
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Published on 24 March 2015
March 29, 2015: transition to summer time
The next time change will take place on the night of Sunday, March 29, 2015 for France. This operation is ensured at the Observatory of Paris, in the...
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Published on 23 March 2015
Reliving the partial eclipse replay
Friday, March 20, 2015 there was a partial solar eclipse, 9 am 20 to 11 h 40 in Ile-de-France.
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Published on 17 March 2015
Observing the eclipse: safety instructions
While the partial eclipse, which will be visible throughout France on the morning of Friday, March 20th, is definitely an event not to be missed, its...
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Published on 4 March 2015
Rosetta: ground level images of the comet
After having grazed the comet at a distance of 6km on the 14th of February 2015, the Rosetta probe has furnished an unprecedently high resolution image of...
News from the labs
Published on 3 February 2015
GAIA discovers diffuse band (DIB) absorptions and probe the interstellar medium
Researchers from Paris Observatory have uncovered for the first time in the spectra of GAIA absorption lines of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIB). The...
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Published on 9 January 2015
In extremis, measurements on a pulsar
Dans le cadre d’une campagne d’observations menée sur 5 ans, avec les 5 plus grands radiotélescopes de la planète, incluant notamment celui de la station de...
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Published on 7 January 2015
2015 International Year of the Light in France
Paris’ Observatory is sponsoring the National Committee of "2015, Year of the Light in France"
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Published on 17 November 2014
The Philae has landed, with a bounce and a success of historic proportions!
The Paris Obsevatory scientists, some of whom have been involved in the Rosetta mission from the very start, lived through an nervewracking 12th of...