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Gaia, a siren … for solar system objects
The European space mission Gaia, launched in 2013, has recently enriched the scope of its sky mapping activities through the commissioning of a daily alert...
The SuperCam project has successfully passed its CDR and begins integration
The SuperCam project successfully passed its Critical Design Review on December 7, 8 and 9 2016 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New...
Validation of the radio frequency set for the PicSat project
The frequency set of the PicSat nanosatellite, designed for the measurement of exoplanetary transits, has been validated by the IARU (International Amateur...
Quantum technologies challenged by microgravity
Physicists from the Laboratoire photonique numérique et nanosciences (CNRS/Université de Bordeaux/Institut d’optique graduate school), from the Systèmes de...
Proxima bound to Alpha Centauri
Three astronomers, one from the Observatoire de Paris, demonstrated that Proxima, the closest star to the Sun, is gravitationally linked to its two neighbors...
Nearby ageing star previews the future of Solar system planets
Five billion years from now, the Sun will grow into a red giant star, more than a hundred times larger than its current size. It will also experience an...
Study of dry ice on Rosetta’s comet
The work of Filacchione et al.,published in the November 17th 2016 issue of Science, to which have contributed scientists from the Paris Observatory,...
Study of the water ice on Rosetta’s comet
The work of Fornasier et al. (2016) published on line in the November 17 november 2016 issue of Science shows how the colours of the nucleus of comet...
Studies of the ice on Rosetta’s comet
Two online papers in the November 17th 2016 issue of the journal Science, to which have contributed two Paris Observatory scientist, furnish new information...
ESO’s SPHERE instrument yields high resolution images of protoplanetary discs
The recent publication in November 2016, by three international teams of asgtronomers, which include scientists from the Paris Observatory’s Laboratory for...