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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...
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Published on 15 November 2013
ISON: the comet of the century?
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) – discovered on September 21st 2012 thanks to a 40 cm telescope of the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) in Russie –...
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Published on 13 November 2013
SPIRou : involvement of the Ile-de-France Region
The Île-de-France region is providing financial support for SPIRou, a very promising next generation instrumental project destined for the Canada France...
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Published on 3 September 2013
Combined study of a star with its planet : the case of HD52265
The mass, radius and age of the star HD52265 as well as its internal angular velocity of rotation and axial inclination have been extracted from a...
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Published on 3 September 2013
The central black hole of our galaxy is the seat of a strong magnetic field
Observations carried out at the Nançay radio-astronomy facility of the Paris Observatory, coupled with other observations made worldwide, have shown that a...
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Published on 17 July 2013
Optical lattice clocks: towards a new definition of the second?
The definition of the time unit, the second, is based since 1967 on the oscillation period of the caesium atom, but it could change in a not so remote...