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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...