THE Annual Report of the Paris Observatory, which has recently appeared, draws special attention to the two events which have rendered the past year memorable, not merely in the history of the ...

Using interferometry, an international team led by an astronomer of Paris Observatory (LESIA) obtained an unprecedented image of the surface of the red supergiant Betelgeuse, in the constellation of ...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark — Three members of the Paris Observatory delegation have traveled across the world to stay at Arkansas Tech University and view the total solar eclipse in Russellville. Miguel ...

This circle represented the outline of the moon, as it appeared to the observer at the Paris observatory, at the hour and minute in question, on a certain day in the seventeenth century. The star ...

Commonly thought to be long-lived satellites of our galaxy, a new study now finds indications that most dwarf galaxies might, in fact, be destroyed soon after their entry into the Galactic halo.

The latest iteration of the 'speaking clock', invented in France in 1933, at the Paris Observatory - Copyright afp/AFP/File Erika SANTELICES The latest iteration of ...

WE have received from Admiral Mouchez, the Director of the Paris Observatory, the report on the state of that Observatory for the past year, and as we recently made reference to the state of our own ...

Recently, the European Space Agency released the third installment of data from the Gaia satellite, a public catalog that provides the positions and velocities of over a billion stars. This is our ...

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Jay Pasachoff, Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College, is in Paris on Saturday, September 7, to receive the Prix-Jules-Janssen (the Jules Janssen Prize) awarded to him in 2012 from ...

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