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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Actus

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

Credits: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar - CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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...

Last starlight for Gaia

15 January 2025 The European Space Agency’s Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion...

Seminars & meetings

9 May 2025

Séminaire - Sukyoung Yi (Younsei University)

"NewCluster: a new high-resolution simulation for galaxy cluster in the era of...

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XMM-Newton_spacecraft_model: XMM/ESA