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The Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is delighted to be hosting the 2023 edition of the annual days of the Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique (SF2A), from 20 to 23 June on the Esplanade campus. More than 500 people have registered for this highlight of French...
After months of thorough testing and bug fixing, the Aladin team is proud to announce the official release of Aladin Lite v3. For outreach The Aladin Lite previewer has been updated: https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/. Demo with DECaPS DR2 survey images : let...
An international team of astrophysicists has measured the polarization of X-rays from an extragalactic supermassive black hole for the first time using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a new satellite from NASA and the Italian Space Agency. These measurements shed light on...
Black hole X-ray binaries are systems where a star and a black hole of a few solar masses orbit each other. Matter accreted from the star by the intense gravitational field of the black hole is heated to several hundred million degrees and radiates in X-rays. Some of this material is also ejected...
The Gaia collaboration, which has many contributors from the Strasbourg astronomical Observatory, will recieve a prestigious award from the American Astronomical Society. The Gaia collaboration, which is responsible for the spacecraft that is currently building the largest and most precise...
Hydrogen is the lightest and most abundant atomic element in the universe. On Earth, it is found combined with other atoms in molecules or as dihydrogen H2. In the Universe, hydrogen can be found as isolated neutral atoms (HI). The evolution of galaxies is mainly governed by the accretion of this...
On Monday 13 June 2022, the Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre (CDS) publishes the Data Release 3 of the ESA Gaia mission in the CDS services. This major data release coincides with the 50th anniversary year of the operations of the CDS (1972-2022), making it an ideal time to celebrate the...
The cristal collectif award recognises teams of men and women, research support staff, who have carried out projects whose technical mastery, collective dimension, applications, innovation and influence are particularly remarkable. This distinction is awarded in two categories: "direct support...
On Friday 01 April CDS launched into its 50th anniversary year with an event held at the Palais Universitaire : "Open Science and the 50th anniversary of CDS" / "Science Ouverte et le 50ème anniversaire du CDS". We were honoured by the participation of the French Ministry for Higher Education...
The African Network of Women in Astronomy just announced the recipients of its first awards for the year 2021. Marie Korsaga, the first Burkinabe woman to obtain a PhD in astronomy, and now post-doc at ObAS, wins the Early Career Award. Congratulations ! For more informations :...