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

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...

New images from the Euclid satellite

31 May 2024 Less than a year after its launch, ESA's Euclid space mission has just published five new never-before-seen views of the Universe. These images,...

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