Communiqués de presse de 2022
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First light for WEAVE, the latest generation spectrograph
New spectrograph of the William Herschel Telescope (Canary Islands, Spain), WEAVE has just successfully collected its first galaxy lights. The observation of...
Exceptional light jets, or when a star meets a black hole
For the first time in more than ten years, an international team including scientists from CNRS and Paris Observatory - PSL have observed a very rare...
James Webb Telescope: first images of the Orion Nebula
An international research team has just revealed the first images of the Orion Nebula, the richest and closest nursery of stars to the Solar System, captured...
Exploring the universe with Gaia: 3rd data submission
On June 13, 2022, the new data release (DR3) of the Gaia mission will take place. This will be the first publication of the complete catalog of the mission...
A fully isolated dwarf galaxy unexpectedly affected by ram pressure
Dwarf galaxies are known to be pristine probes of the early Universe, especially when they are isolated and not interacting with massive galaxies....
NenuFAR officially becomes a LOFAR super station
Developed and implemented at the Nançay Radio Observatory (Observatoire de Paris – PSL / CNRS / Université d’Orléans), the low-frequency radio telescope...
Flurry of new discoveries as incredible new image revealing 4.4 million galaxies is made public
Over a seven-year period, from 2014 to 2021, an international scientific team, involving in France the Observatoire de Paris - PSL, the Université d’Orléans...
Cheops reveals a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet
ESA’s Cheops mission has revealed that an exoplanet orbiting its host star in one day has a non-spherical, rugby ball-like shape. This is the first time that...