Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. The scene at Pic du Midi is one out of a sci-fi movie: a fortified concrete-and-stone ...

The opportunity to use a large professional telescope at a historic and renowned observatory is the dream of most amateur astronomers, beginner or advanced. Most of the time, we have to battle against ...

Observations taken with the 2.0-meter Bernard Lyot Telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory in France show that Kappa Ceti is a Sun-like star with an age of 400-600 million years. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first visitors to the top of the 2,877-metre Pic du Midi de Bigorre didn’t come to ski. Nor, of course, did ...

Scientists from the French national research institute CNRS sampled air 2,877 metres above sea level at the Pic du Midi Observatory in the French Pyrenees. Image: Pascal Pavani / AFP From Mount ...

NARVAL, a stellar spectropolarimeter, has recently been installed on the 2 meter diameter Bernard Lyot Telescope (INSU-CNRS) at the summit of the Pic du Midi in the French Pyrenees. Like its twin ...

Astronomers at one of the world’s most famous observatories say that a new fast-food restaurant could ruin their view of space by filling the air with thermal pollution and greasy fumes. France’s Pic ...

'Bristling with mysterious domes and towers', the Pic du Midi observatory and hotel has a spectacular vantage point over the Pyrenees From below it looks like an alien fortress on a frozen planet.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

AT a recent sitting of the Paris Academy of Sciences M. Ch. Sainte-Claire Deville made a communication, with reference to the proposed Physical Observatory on the Pic du Midi, in the Pyrenees. He ...

CNRS-Insu France in collaboration with the Research Council of Canada and the University of Hawaii have recently installed a stellar spectropolarimeter on the Bernard Lyot Telescope In France. NARVAL, ...

OUR readers may remember that early in the year General de Nansouty, the hardy director of the Pic du Midi Meteorological Observatory, was cut off from communication with the world below, the severe ...