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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...
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Published on 29 May 2013
Big Computation of Universe : the movie
At Observatoire de Paris, on Meudon site (Hauts-de-Seine, France) : Jean-Michel Alimi and his six-researchers team are trying to understand how the Universe...
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Published on 28 May 2013
Herschel zooms into the vicinity of black hole at the heart of our Galaxy
See what is happening in the region around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Galaxy : that is what an international team of scientists, which...
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Published on 16 May 2013
Four powerful salvos from the Sun
This is a rare happening, and a sign that our Sun’s activity wil peak in 2013: over a period spanning just 48h, astrophysicists have observed four...
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Published on 7 May 2013
Andromeda’s satellite galaxies: the relic of a major merger?
Most of the satellite galaxies of the great Andromeda galaxy are confined to a gigantic thin disc. This recent discovery has puzzled the astronomical...
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Published on 4 April 2013
Comète de mars 2013 : les images et vidéos
En raison de la météo, la comète C/2011 L4 Pan-Starrs aura été plus discrète que prévu dans le ciel européen. Les chercheurs de l’Observatoire de Paris...