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Published on 6 September 2016

Zooming into the skin of the Orion hunter

Combining the information from the ALMA interferometer and the IRAM-30m single-dish, an international team of astronomers led by Javier Goicoechea (CSIC)...
Published on 8 July 2016

The THEMIS telescope reveals the fine structure of the magnetic field at the solar surface outside of active regions

A key objective of the French THEMIS solar telescope, located in the Teide Observatory in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, is to study the magnetic field and...
Published on 7 May 2016

Star Formation and Feedback: A Molecular Outflow–Prestellar Core Interaction in L1689N

The molecular cloud L1689N contains a prestellar core, characterized by a high deuteration level, indicating of high density and freeze-out of molecules on...
Published on 18 November 2015

The jet from a black hole drives multiple winds in a nearby galaxy

Massive black holes residing in the centers of galaxies are extremely powerful energy sources, able to disrupt or damage a large part of their galaxies by...
Published on 20 October 2015

GAIA: A year of science observations

272 billions of astrometric measurements (positions), 54.4 billions of photometric observations (apparent luminosities) and 5.4 billions of spectra: this is...
Published on 21 August 2015

Is the black hole in NGC 1277 really obese?

It is well known that each galaxy hosts in its nucleus a super-massive black hole, of mass equal to 0.2-1% of its bulge mass. Recently a few exceptions of...
Published on 25 June 2015

An exoplanet in transit, from visible to X-rays: Venus as a probe

The atoms in the upper atmosphere of planets can absorb high-energy photons (UV and soft X-rays) when passing in front of their stars, increasing their...
Published on 11 April 2015

Ubiquity of interplanetary nanodust particles from Cassini observations

An international team, led by astronomers from Paris Observatory, has measured for the first time the distribution of nanodust particles in the...
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...
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...