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15 December 2020

Star Formation in Milky Way’s Central Bulge

Like most spiral galaxies, the Milky Way has a roughly spherical collection of stars at its center called the bulge. How the bulge formed has been a long-standing mystery, with many studies suggesting that it built up over time through multiple bursts of star formation. View of the central...

3 December 2020

CDS publishes the ESA Gaia mission Early Data Release 3

All-sky view of the flux of the billion Gaia sources made by CDS. Gaia is an ambitious ESA mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy with unprecedented precision. Gaia EDR3 is the result of 34 months of observations (July 2014 – May 2017), and contains the positions of 1.8...

28 July 2020

CDS-ESCAPE Science Support Researcher M/F

CDS is hiring a researcher (M/F) on a 24 months contract for the scientific support to the operation of the ESCAPE project. Applications shall be submitted before September 15 on the CNRS...

21 July 2020

Magnetic Field of a Spiral Galaxy

If you imagined a galaxy like the milky way, would you think of galaxy-wide magnetic fields? Probably not. The presented image of the galaxy NGC 4217 tells us that we should. VLA radio data from Yelena Stein and Ralf-Juergen Dettmar (Ruhr University Bochum). The observations are part of the...

8 July 2020

Comète 2020 F3 NEOWISE

Comète 2020 F3 NEOWISE observée le 7 juillet 2020 à l'aube en Alsace (crédits photo Alexis Lorang) juil. 8 2020 Une magnifique comète (nommée 2020 F3 NEOWISE) est actuellement visible dans le ciel alsacien, en regardant vers l'horizon nord-est avant le lever du Soleil. A partir de 3h30...

1 July 2020

Motion du conseil interne de l’ObAS concernant la LPPR

juil. 1 2020 Les élu(e)s du conseil de laboratoire de l'Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg (ObAS) expriment leur plus vive inquiétude quant à la poursuite du projet de loi de programmation pluri-annuelle de la recherche (LPPR), tel qu’engagé ces derniers mois. En effet, le...

19 May 2020

Prix Schläfli 2020

May 19 2020 Oliver Müller Oliver Müller, post-doctorant à l'Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, a reçu pour ses travaux le prix Schläfli 2020, décerné chaque année aux quatre meilleures thèses en sciences naturelles par l'Académie suisse des...

5 March 2020

L’observatoire mobilisé pour la recherche

5 mars 2020 Avec les personnes en CDD. Sans les personnes en CDD L’observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg accueille 83 personnes, dont 56 fonctionnaires titulaires (10 BIATS, 18 ITA, 28 chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs), 7 techniciens, assistants-ingénieurs et  ingénieurs en...

7 February 2020

Galaxy formation simulated without dark matter

Feb 11 2020 The distribution of matter 1.5 billion years after the start of the simulation. The lighter the color, the higher the density of the gas. The light blue dots show young stars. © AG Kroupa/Uni Bonn A study by the University of Bonn simulates a universe in which Newton's laws are...

9 January 2020

Discovery of a large HI ring around the quiescent galaxy AGC 203001

Jan 15 2020 Blue contours correspond to the neutral hygrogen ring, overlaid on an optical color composite image obtained at CFHT in g-, r- and i-band. Bait et al. report the discovery using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope of an extremely large (diameter approximately 115 kpc)...