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News from the labs
Published on 15 September 2014
Light echoes from a Cepheid star yield its distance
Cepheids are variable stars, which follow a relation Period-Luminosity (P-L), allowing to determine their distance. To better calibrate this P-L relation, it...
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Published on 11 September 2014
The abundance of lithium measured for the first time beyond our galaxy
The abundance of lithium has been measured for the first time in old stars outside of our own galaxy. This has been done by an international team which...
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Published on 27 August 2014
Gaia starts its scientific observations
On the 22nd of August 2014, the ESA satellite Gaia will start its scientific observations, in its nominal sky scanning mode. At the Paris Observatory, thirty...
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Published on 25 August 2014
A temperature of -70°C on comet 67P/CG
The Rosetta probe has on board VIRTIS, a visible and infra-red imager, designed and built in part at the Paris Observatory, in its Laboratoire d’études...
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Published on 25 August 2014
Rosetta : successful rendez-vous with comet 67P/CG !
After wandering for over a decade throough the solar system, the ESA space probe Rosetta arrived on the 6th of August 2014 in the neighborhood of its...
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Published on 20 August 2014
A new model to describe the structure of galaxies
In an article published in July 2014 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the Observatory of Paris, Pierre and...
News from the labs
Published on 9 August 2014
A new theory for the Fast Radio Bursts (FRB)
Since their discovery in 2007, the fast radio bursts (5 milliseconds) are still very mysterious to astronomers. Several theories have been proposed,...
News from the labs
Published on 22 July 2014
Virtual Observatory and Planets
Either for the study of Solar system with the online ephemerides of IMCCE, or numerous databases supported in its laboratories and notably the encyclopaedia...
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Published on 21 July 2014
On board Rosetta the MIRO instrument has started to probe comet 67 P/CG
On board Rosetta the MIRO instrument has started to probe comet 67 P/CG. The first measurements have yielded a preliminary etimate for the rate at which...
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Published on 7 July 2014
HESS-II, an observatory for very high energies, proves its worth
HESS-II, set up in Namibia and operational since 2012, is the world’s largest gamma ray observatory; it has produced its first results. They are very...