Haute-Provence Observatory

metropolitan France · France

Haute-Provence Observatory, France
Photo: José Rodrigues, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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A research observatory in southern France where the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star was detected in 1995. Its dark skies and cluster of domes sit amid Provençal hills.

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