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Energetic lightshow at Saturn’s north pole
An international team, coordinated by an astronomer of Observatoire de Paris, using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope have taken a series of spectacular...
SuperCam: delivery of the IR spectrometer flight model
Mardi 17 juillet 2018, le Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique de l’Observatoire de Paris livre à l’Institut de recherche en...
The longest lunar eclipse of the century
Une éclipse de Lune sera visible depuis une grande partie du territoire français ce vendredi 27 juillet 2018. L’Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul...
The perihelic opposition of Mars
Ce 27 juillet 2018, la distance entre Mars et la Terre atteint un minimum. La planète rouge sera dite en grande opposition, montrant une taille apparente et...
A unique data set for ten solar cycles
On July 11th 2018, the Paris Observatory will have accumulated 110 years worth of daily observations of the Sun. Its image collection constitutes the memory...
SPHERE discovers its first protoplanet
The SPHERE instrument, installed at ESO’s VLT has enabled one to identify for the first time a protoplanet nested within a transition disc around the star...
Hayabusa2 has reached its target, the asteroid Ryugu
On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 reached its target, the ancient asteroid Ryugu. Antonella Barucci, astronomer at the Paris...
AU Microscopii and its mysterious waves…
In 2014, thanks to ESO’s SPHERE instrument, strange structures were found in the neighborhood of the star AU Microscopii. Paris Observatory astronomers have...
What does a Cherenkov telescope look like? Find out via pictures.
The Paris Observatory is setting up on its Meudon site one of the prototypes of the « Cherenkov Telescope Array ». This future This upcoming large...
Calibration campaign for SuperCam - Mars
On March 9th 2018, the qualification model for SuperCam, the instrument which will be flown on NASA’s Rover Mars2020, passed successfully a series of tests...