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: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Credits: Lucie Correia

Cosmic filaments shape star formation across the Universe

28 July 2026 On scales of hundreds of millions of light-years, galaxies are distributed along a vast network of matter filaments known as the cosmic web. While...

Rodrigo Ibata is awarded the 2026 Kavli Prize

10 June 2026 Rodrigo Ibata, Research Director at CNRS at the Strasbourg Observatory (Unistra/CNRS), receives the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics alongside Amina...

How Supercomputers Are Rewriting the History of Globular Star Clusters

30 March 2026 An international team of researchers, led by Dr Paolo Bianchini (CNRS, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory), has achieved a major breakthrough in...

A new perspective on galaxies

20 February 2026 A team of astronomers led by Lucie Correia just brought a new perspective on galaxies in the millimeter–centimeter range with archival data, in...

Seminars & meetings

18 September 2026

Séminaire - Joanna Berteaud (Royal Holloway, University of London)

"Galactic bulge millisecond...

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XMM-Newton_spacecraft_model: XMM/ESA