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Solar tornadoes are not tornadoes !
In spite of their appearance, «solar tornadoes» do not rotate. That is the conclusion of a team of European scientists, among whom is an astronomer from the...
Close monitoring of the path of the Chinese space station
At the Paris Observatory, the Institute for celestial mechanics and ephemeris computation (Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul des éphémérides -...
ESA’s green light for the ARIEL mission
Its official. On March 20th, 2018, ESA’s programme committee selected the ARIEL mission. It will at last be possible to start making it, to the deep...
C2ERES : how to be prepared for tomorrow’s space exploration?
Setup on the Meudon site of the Paris Observatory, C2ERES (Campus et Centre de Recherche pour l’Exploration Spatiale) is the space pole of the PSL University.
January 31st 2018: 3 facettes for one full Moon
«Super», «blue» and «blood red»: the full Moon on January 31st 2018 will display all of these three properties simultaneously. The Institute for celestial...
Hello Earth? PicSat calling…
Orbited at 5h20 this Friday, January 12th 2018 by the Indian Space Agency ISRO, the nanosatellite PicSat responded successfully to the first command sent by...
Launch of a French nanosatellite to solve the Beta Pictoris mysteries
PicSat will be launched on January 12th 2018 to study continuously the Beta Pictoris system, its exoplanet and its disc, using a 5cm diameter telescope. This...
The slow rotation of the red supergiant Betelgeuse
The Betelgeuse star has a rotation period of about 30 years. With this discovery, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics on January 9, 2018, a scientific...
A series of super Moons !
Three super Moons will be here, one after the other : December 3rd 2017, followed by ones on the 1st and the 31st of January 2018. The Paris Observatory’s...
MOSAIC for the ELT: A Gigantic Step into the Deep Universe
The proposed MOSAIC multi-object spectrograph will be the workhorse instrument for the future Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the biggest visible/infrared...