February 10:
Galaxies in the young universe are rich in molecular gas

February 10:
A collisionless scenario for Uranus tilting

February 10:
The evolution of the Hubble sequence

January 10:
Zoom on near-earth asteroids

January 10:
Unprecedented details on the surface of the Betelgeuse star

January 10:
Inhomogeneous models of universe: an alternative to dark energy

January 10:
Close-up photos of dying star show our Sun's fate

December 09:
A new window for the observation of dust growth in molecular clouds

November 09:
A multifaceted astronomical dictionary

October 09:
The Andromeda galaxy seen as never, at the 21-cm wavelength

October 09:
A population of compact elliptical galaxies detected with the Virtual Observatory

Septembre 09:
First light for Planck

Septembre 09:
First Solid Evidence for a Rocky Exoplanet

Septembre 09:
Andromeda, the cannibal

July 09:
Sharpest views of Betelgeuse reveal how supergiant stars lose mass

July 09:
Fermi reveals various populations of gamma-ray pulsars

June 09:
Solar-like oscillations have been discovered in a massive star by CoRoT

June 09:
Io close to thermal equilibrium

June 09:
A new interpretation of the giant planet-metallicity correlation

June 09:
Mercury, Mars, Venus and the Earth: when worlds collide!

June 09:
Silver medal for the European project «Hands-On Universe»

May 09:
ESO builds and operates a suite of the world's most advanced ground-based astronomical telescopes

May 09:
CoRoT detects non radial modes with long lifetimes in giant stars

April 09:
Discovery of a slow bar in a spiral galaxy

April 09:
The solar wind is the cause of rapid ageing of the asteroids

April 09:
Galaxy survey maps where matter lurks

March 09:
From stellar abundances to nucleosynthesis theory

March 09:
Recovery of the fragments of a falling asteroid

March 09:
Nanoparticles in the solar wind

March 09:
Very high energy gamma-rays from the radiogalaxy Centaurus A

March 09:
Hubble and the Very Large Telescope provide unique 3D views of remote galaxies

March 09:
Paris Astronomers "Catch" Passing Asteroid

March 09:
The lower atmosphere of Pluto revealed

February 09:
The tragic destiny of the gaseous extrasolar planets

February 09:
Super-Earth found! The smallest transiting extrasolar planet ever discovered

February 09:
From Titania to large trans-Neptunian objects: ground-based stellar occultations in the quest for the billionth of atmospheric pressure

January 09:
Christian Bordé elected at the Académie des sciences

December 08:
The Price of the Engineers 2008 rewards the group for microwave studies of LERMA

December 08:
An extra second in 2008

December 08:
No galaxy is an island

November 08:
The giant exoplanet, long suspected around Beta Pictoris, now imaged

October 08:
CoRoT measures solar-like oscillations and granulation in stars hotter than the Sun

October 08:
An unexpected solar wind seen by Ulysses

October 08:
Planet or "failed star"? CoRoT finds a unique object

October 08:
Retired galaxies behaving like active galaxies

September 08:
Successful atmospheric re-entry for the ATV Jules Verne

August 08:
Meteorites look different from Near-Earth Asteroids

July 08:
Last news from the CoRoT satellite

July 08:
A breath of oxygen for the Sun

July 08:
Solar-stellar connection: a new light on the solar magnetic mystery

June 08:
Radial migration of stars in the Galactic disk

May 08:
CoRoT discovers 5 exoplanets

May 08:
Detection of hydroxyl (OH) on Venus through nightglow emission

May 08:
A stratospheric oscillation detected at the equator of Saturn

May 08:
The mystery of Titan's rotation

May 08:
Big black holes cook flambeed stellar pancakes

April 08:
A new analysis of WMAP and large-scale structure data yields interesting constraints on the inflation theory

March 08:
Lithium in the most deficient dwarf: a puzzle

March 08:
Hunting exoplanets ? try using two chessboards and one triangle

March 08:
Stellar jets: comparison between laboratory experiment and numerical simulations

February 08:
Ligth echoes give the distance of a Cepheid

February 08:
The Poincaré Dodecahedral Space model gains support to explain the shape of space

December 07:
Launch of an astrobiological experiment on Columbus

December 07:
Formation of cold filaments in cooling flow clusters

November 07:
First results from Venus Express

November 07:
Rare White dwarf stars with carbon atmospheres

November 07:
Stubborn nebulae -- Fossil magnetic fields protect Helium 3 in dying stars

November 07:
The puzzle of the variable radio period of Saturn

Novembre 07:
The Pierre Auger Observatory reveals the origin of cosmic rays of extreme energy

November 07:
COROT: 300 days in orbit

October 07:
What happened to the comet 17P/Holmes ?

October 07:
Cosmic Vision 2015-2025

September 07:
The asymmetry of the Li lines casts doubt on previous determinations of the isotopic ratio 6Li/7Li

September 07:
Strong seasonal temperature variations in Neptune's atmosphere

September 07:
Observations of the 2007 burst of Aurigids meteor shower

July 07:
Be stars and binaries of the Small Magellanic Cloud

July 07:
Detection of interstellar propylene in the dark cloud TMC-1

July 07:
The chemical diversity of comets dates back to their origin

June 07:
The Milky Way: an unusual galaxy and an exceptionnally calm formation

May 07:
COROT: discovery of an exoplanet and first stellar oscillations

April 07:
First detection of molecular oxygen in the interstellar medium

Mars 07:
Physical characterisation of the double asteroid (90) Antiope

March 07:
Toward a Unified Description of Dark Energy and Dark Matter

March 07:
Transit of the Moon in front of the Sun seen by STEREO B

March 07:
The Descartes award 2006 to the HESS consortium

February 07:
The PLANCK satellite

February 07:
Cold gas and molecular depletion in pre-stellar cores

January 07:
COROT first image

January 07:
The lakes on Titan

December 06:
VIRTIS measures the surface temperature on Venus

December 06:
The Be stars: fast rotators since their birth!

December 06:
The Be stars: fast rotators since their birth!

November 06:
A giant planet embedded in the magnetosphere of its star

November 06:
The Milky Way's neighbouring galaxies have a different history

November 06:
Chlorophyll and ozone in the Earthshine

October 06:
A New Class of Compact H II regions in the Magellanic Clouds

October 06:
October 25-26, 2006: Launching of STEREO mission

October 06:
Smoking gun evidence of a head-on collision for Andromeda

October 06:
Pristine abundances of C, N, and... mixing issues in the stellar interiors

October 06:
First detection of small Kuiper objects by stellar occultations

September 06:
Contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources to atmospheric methane variability

September 06:
Can violent collisions shape circumstellar disks?

September 06:
The last straight line for the CoRoT satellite

July 06:
New Constraints on Inflation from the WMAP data

July 06:
A new concept for magnetic reconnexion

July 06:
Loops in the Earth pole motion... down to the size of a cell phone!

June 06:
The extended rotation curve of Messier 31

June 06:
The various origin of dwarf galaxies revealed by numerical simulations

June 06:
The magnetic nature of a mysterious naked-eye cosmic X-ray emitter

May 06:
Sand dunes discovered on Titan by Cassini radar

May 06:
Trio of Neptunes and their Belt

April 06:
Does the asteroid Vesta possess a magnetic field?

April 06:
A cosmological billiard: a new explanation for gamma ray bursts

April 06:
Astronomers see our origins in 20-year-old star explosion

April 06:
Vega: the star with comets?

April 06:
Insertion in orbit of Venus Express on 11 April 2006, and first images of Venus south pole

March 06:
The cosmic dance of distant galaxies

March 06:
Cepheids in their cocoons

March 06:
Still more accurate clocks

February 06:
Cosmic-ray accelerator in the Galactic Center

February 06:
Trojan asteroid Patroclus and its companion Menoetius: Comets in disguise?

January 06:
Rapidly Spinning Star Vega has Cool Dark Equator

January 06:
Simulate the climate on Mars to understand its glaciers' origin

January 06:
The first 'OHANA fringes with the Keck telescopes

January 06:
The stellar occultation by Charon of 11 july 2005

January 06:
Disturbed kinematics of Virgo cluster spiral galaxies

December 05:
An extra second in 2005

November 05:
Titan, ten months after the successful landing of the Huygens probe

November 05:
The largest matter concentration on large scale of the local Universe

October 05:
Launch of Venus Express between 26 october and 24 November 2005

September 05:
A numerical method "multi-zoom" to study galaxy formation

September 05:
Black hole in search of a home

August 05:
The moonlets of asteroid 87 Sylvia: Remus and Romulus

July 05:
A dual emission mechanism at the Galactic Centre?

June 05:
First observation of a meteor in the Martian atmosphere

June 05:
Explaining the acceleration of the fast solar wind

May 05:
Guy Perrin, winner in 2005 of the HP-SF2A award

May 05:
On the likely effect of disk self-gravity on low mass planet migration

April 05:
A very rare massive star, and a peculiar young ionised "blob"

April 05:
The project « Oeil »: astronomy enters hospital

April 05:
New potential locations for life in other planetary systems

March 05:
The first dark galaxy discovered?

February 05:
An Earth-like correspondence between Saturn's auroral features and radio emission

February 05:
Earthquake of Sumatra: did the axis of the Earth tremble?

February 05:
Seismology and activity of the F type star HD 49933

January 05:
The large spiral galaxies younger than expected

December 04:
A magnetic storm on Saturn

November 04:
Recipe for a planet

November 04:
International joint observation of a solar filament: THEMIS maps the magnetic field

November 04:
First image of TeV-energy gamma-rays of a cosmic source: a supernova remnant

November 04:
VLTI watches the pulsation of four southern Cepheids

November 04:
Severe glacial cycles on Mars

October 04:
A new astronomical solution for the calibration of a geological time scale

September 04:
Dwarf Irregular Galaxies: Not so pristine after all

September 04:
Foreseeing the Sun's fate: Astronomical interferometry reveals the close environment of Mira stars

September 04:
Remnants of the 1994 comet crash in Jupiter

August 04:
How did the planet in the Gamma-Cephei binary system form?

July 04:
Overeating Monsters

July 04:
Titan, a new world is unveiled

July 04:
The explanation of Mercury's capture into the 3:2 spin-orbit
resonance as a result of its chaotic orbital dynamics

July 04:
CASSINI enters the Saturn system

June 04:
FLAMES/GIRAFFE: a unique tool to understand galaxy evolution

June 04:
Hydrogen peroxide on Mars

May 04:
First observation of an active galactic nucleus with the VLTI:
resolution of the torus at the heart of NGC 1068

April 04:
The new asteroid targets of Rosetta mission: 21 Lutetia and 2867 Steins

March 04:
Antifreeze in comet Hale-Bopp

March 04:
Repartition of H2O and CO2 ices on the south polar cap of Mars

March 04:
Atomic hydrogen from circumstellar shells around AGB stars

February 04:
Paris Observatory will participate in the realisation of the infrared instrument MIRI, on the future space telescope JWST

February 04:
Rosetta: Launch on 2 March by Ariane 5

February 04:
First results of the ESA/Mars Express orbiter around Mars

February 04:
Time evolution of protoneutron stars

January 04:
Conceptual unification of elementary particles, black holes and the primordial states of the universe

December 03:
First proof of cold molecular gas associated to a cooling flow

December 03:
First detection of CO in Uranus

November 03:
Some teams of Paris Observatory are among the teams honored by the European Descartes Price, in 2003

November 03:
From the edge of abyss... First message received from the boundary of the black hole at the centre of our Galaxy

Octobre 03:
First coronographic observations using a 4 Quadrant Phase Mask on the VLT

Octobre 03:
A finite dodecahedral Universe

September 03:
End of the journey for Galileo: October 1989- September 2003

September 03:
Perspective of discovering true analogs of Jupiter around nearby stars with ALMA

August 03:
The Earth-Mars distance, and the August 27 event

July 03:
Mars-Express successfully tests its instruments

July 03:
Drastic expansion of Pluto's atmosphere as revealed by stellar occultations

July 03:
How is our Galaxy enriched in carbon?

June 03:
First mapping of the neighbourhood of our solar system

May 03:
What are these mysterious Low Surface Brightness galaxies?

May 03:
Variation of fundamental constants constrained by atomic fountain clocks

May 03:
Transits of Mercury on 7 May 2003, and of Venus on 8 June 2004

April 03:
Polar ring galaxies and dark matter

March 03:
Overabundance of nitrogen onto a magnetic white dwarf

February 03:
R127 and its massive star cluster

January 03:
Vibrations of the cosmic drumhead

January 03:
Salt on Io

January 03:
Origin of atmospheric zonal winds in giant planets

December 02:
When Uranus looks like Saturn...

December 02:
The outer parts of accretion discs in active galaxies unveiled

November 02:
Exceptional Leonid shower

November 02:
Venus Express

October 02:
A black hole at our Galactic Center

October 02:
Martian paleoclimates

September 02:
A rose blooming in space

September 02:
The double planet Pluton-Charon meets a triple star

August 02:
A bath of youth for galaxies

July 02:
GIRAFFE sees its first light

July 02:
Solar neutrinos: are observations and model predictions reconciled at last?

June 02:
The Odin satellite detects H218O in comet C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang)

May 02:
Detection of triply deuterated ammonia: the first triply deuterated molecule in the interstellar medium

April 02:
The lithium observed in old stars has a uniform abundance: is this the lithium of the Big-Bang?

March 02:
Is there an atmosphere around Titania, satellite of Uranus?

February 02:
Evidence that the solar wind controls Jovian hectometric radiation and auroral EUV emissions

February 02:
Is the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy a debris of the Large Magellanic Cloud?

January 02:
Earth light: Terrestrial vegetation detected in the spectrum of the earthshine

January 02:
Multiple eyes for the VLT: FLAMES

January 02:
First Fringes at VLTI and Application to Cepheids

December 01:
Delivery of GIRAFFE: multi-fibers spectrograph for the VLT

December 01:
A Small Spherical Universe after All?

December 01:
Images of unprecedented sharpness: the first light of NAOS, the adaptive optics of the VLT, is a success

November 01:
A New Bar in the Center of the Milky Way

November 01:
Painting with oxygen and hydrogen

October 01:
Cold atomic matter in the Universe

October 01:
"What goes around comes around..."

September 01:
The problem of the light polarization on the quiet Sun: the contribution of THEMIS

September 01:
First Computations of the Orbits in a Binary Black Hole System

August 01:
First radio cartography of solar coronal mass ejection

July 01:
How seismology can distinguish a pre-main-sequence star from a main-sequence star?

June 01:
The Orion molecular cloud : a stellar nursery

May 01:
The breakup of Comet Linear

May 01:
Orbit predictions for planets and exo-planets

May 01:
Discovery of a satellite around the transneptunian object 1998 WW31

May 01:
A french consortium, in which l'Observatoire de Paris is very active, delivers the first adaptive optics system, NAOS, to the Very Large Telescope

April 01:
The accretion disks around super-massive black holes: do they really exist?

April 01:
Discovery of a remarkable planetary nebula

March 01:
ESO and Observatoire de Paris (DESPA) are happy to announce the first fringes of VLTI/VINCI

March 01:
Massive Infant Stars Rock Their Cradle

March 01:
Phase A study approved by ESA for EUSO

March 01:
Turbulence to make stars vibrate

March 01:
The ODIN satellite gets first light

February 01:
FIRST measure of URANIUM abundance in a star

February 01:
Are pulsars and X-binaries strange stars?

January 01:
Individual Stars in Andromeda's Bulge

Decembre 00:
Direct Observations with the VLT of the formation of spiral galaxies

Decembre 00:
Discovery of a brown dwarf (or a very low mass star) at 13 light-year from Sun with DENIS, MAMA and Keck

Novembre 00:
Has Sirius a second companion?

Novembre 00:
New E-Journal: Astrofluids

Novembre 00:
VINCI delivered by DESPA (Obs Paris) will soon arrive to Paranal for the first light of VLTI

October 00:
Dark matter in the Universe, and cosmic shear

October 00:
ESA selected on October 12, 6 space missions for 2008-2012: BepiColombo, GAIA, LISA, NGST, Solar Orbiter and Eddington ("in reserve")

October 00:
CNES decided on October 5 to launch phases C and D of COROT

September 00:
Interstellar origin of cometary ices ?

August 00:
Space Weather with SOHO and MEUDON Observations

July 00:
Mass Loss from Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars and the Cosmic Cycle of Matter

May 00:
The ISO satellite measures temperature variations at the surface of Pluto

April 00:
Evaporation of black holes and string theory

March 00:
Discovery of molecular gas shells around the elliptical galaxy Centaurus A

February 00:
The Observatory of Paris will be on board STEREO, mission of NASA

February 00:
News of the Cassini-Huygens mission

January 00:
Hipparcos sees the shade of a planet

Decembre 99:Bicentenary of Metre-Standard

Decembre 99:
Very Young Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

October 99:
Ethylen in Neptune's atmosphere

July 99:
The "Cosmic Papillon" in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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