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Published on 10 February 2014
GAIA first pictures
On thursday February 6th, the Gaia satellite unveiled its "first" image of a field of stars.
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Published on 20 January 2014
Wake up Rosetta !
Rosetta : a European interplanetary mission mission to fly over and do an in situ analysis of a comet.
A world première! Monday, January 20th at 11h will be...
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Published on 20 January 2014
Rosetta and Paris’ Observatory
L’Observatoire de Paris est associé depuis l’origine à la mission Rosetta, à travers l’implication de deux de ses unités de recherche : le Laboratoire...
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Published on 15 January 2014
Gaia has arrived!
On January 14, with a last important burn, Gaia was injected into its operating orbit, which consists of extended loops around the Lagrange point L2, called...
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Published on 8 January 2014
A second cometary ring in the surprising exoplanetary system of Fomalhaut
An international team of astronomers, which includes a scientist from the LERMA (Observatoire de Paris/CNRS/ENS/Université de Cergy-Pontoise/UPMC), has just...
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Published on 17 December 2013
FIRST : steps towards direct imagery of exoplanetary systems
Developed by the Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique (Laboratory for space studies and astrophysical instrumentation) –...
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Published on 12 December 2013
Successful launch for Gaia !
ESA’s Gaia mission blasted off Thursday december, 19th on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its exciting mission to study a...
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Published on 29 November 2013
The fate of comet ISON
Comet ISON is officially dead : dixit circular CBET 3731 published on December 1st 2013 by the International Astronomical Union.
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Published on 15 November 2013
The Herschel conference: an overview of the new discoveries
Close to 350 scientists associated with the European space observatory Herschel met in Holland from the 15th to the 18th of October 2013 for a conference...