Strasbourg astronomical observatory - Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg

Strasbourg astronomical Observatory is an Observatory providing services to the astronomical community, a faculty of the Strasbourg University (Unistra), and a mixed research unit from CNRS and Unistra. It is located on the historical campus of the University.

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Credits: NASA, Pablo Garcia

Credits: Arabsalmani et al (2025, 2022)/ORIGINS

IXPE explores Black Hole's Jet

6 May 2025 The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a NASA mission in collaboration with the Space Italian Agency (ASI), has resolved a fundamental...

Star cluster mergers in dwarf galaxies

9 April 2025 A recent study, led by Dr. Mélina Poulain from the University of Oulu, reports the first direct observation of merging star ...

SVOM development engineer position

21 February 2025 The team working on the ground segment of the MXT camera for the French-Chinese SVOM missionmission has a vacancy for a Python DevOps developer.This...

A necklace of pearls on a cosmic filament

6 February 2025 Filaments are slender, thread-like structures of dark matter, gas and galaxies, forming a complex network known as the cosmic web. Theoretical...

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XMM-Newton_spacecraft_model: XMM/ESA