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Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
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"
Highlights
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...
Highlights
Published on 7 November 2014
VIRTIS detects water and carbon dioxide in comet’s coma
In previous blog posts we’ve heard how VIRTIS is able to map the temperature of the comet’s surface. Now, as Dominique Bockelee-Morvan and Stephane Erard...
News from the labs
Published on 26 October 2014
Ionized carbon in absorption and emission to better trace the interstellar diffuse gas
Analyzing observations obtained with the Herschel satellite, an international team led by a researcher at Paris Observatory has obtained new information on...
Highlights
Published on 1 October 2014
MOONS, the project for a new spectrograph for the VLT
ESO has signed an agreement with a consortium led by the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC), for the...
Highlights
Published on 29 September 2014
Everything you ever wanted to know about venusian research – a new site
All the latest information about Venusian research is now available on the Net via the web site created by EuroVenus, a European project led by the Paris...
Highlights
Published on 22 September 2014
Construction of a next generation radiotelescope starts at Nançay
The project of a low frequency radiotelescope – the NenuFAR (New Extension in Nançay Upgrading LOFAR) - has been launched at the Paris Observatory’s Nançay...