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2026/2027 asteroid campaign: first results
From 7 September to 2 October, students and volunteers hunted asteroids. A preliminary discovery comes from the Lycée français Blaise Pascal club.
Read the article →Six asteroids discovered from Abidjan: looking back at the 2022 campaign
How a team of Ivorian volunteers detected six new asteroids as part of IAU and NASA campaigns.
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AIA on tour: astronomy clubs are born in high schools
Mobile planetarium, water-rocket workshops and new clubs: how our school tours plant astronomy in young minds.
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AstroEdu 2025: Ivorian astronomy presented to the French-speaking world
At the “Astronomy for education in the French-speaking world” conference, Dr Marc Harris Yao presented AIA’s activities.
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Why Côte d’Ivoire needs its own observatory
Our most ambitious project: a national astronomical observatory, the first stone of a future Ivorian space agency.
Read the article →Space science in Côte d’Ivoire: things are moving!
An overview of Ivorian space science, in which AIA plays a leading role.
Read the article →Astronomy clubs to introduce students to space
The Lycée Blaise Pascal opens its astronomy club; five more clubs are announced under “One school, one telescope”.
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Astro Tour, Ivory edition: Côte d’Ivoire among the stars
Review of the first AstroTour, led by AIA and SpaceBus France, from 27 November to 8 December 2023.
Read the article →AstroTour: astronomy for everyone in Côte d’Ivoire
IRD announces the tour: four cities, nine dates, fifteen Ivorian and French scientists.
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AIA’s AstroPause: Côte d’Ivoire and the space challenge
Report on the first AstroPause, 18 May 2023 at LASMES, in front of some fifty participants.
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Café des Savoirs: “There is no planet B”
On 26 January 2023, AIA was the special guest of the Institut Français de Côte d’Ivoire’s Café des Savoirs.
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Aziz Diaby, the space physicist who wants to promote astronomy in Côte d’Ivoire
Portrait of AIA’s newly elected president, an ionosphere specialist.
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