Strasbourg astronomical observatory

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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

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...

25 years of the XMM-Newton satellite

10 December 2024 On 10 December 1999, the Ariane 504 rocket, which at the time had a lot to make up for after dropping the Clusters mission in the mangroves of...

Serendipitous discovery with Aladin Lite

30 October 2024 An American team has just published an article in Nature highlighting the presence of a third star orbiting the high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) V404...

Launch of the SVOM mission

28 June 2024 The Franco-Chinese space mission SVOM took off on 22 June 2024. The Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is in charge of processing the data from one...

Seminars & meetings