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Administrative news
Published on 7 February 2025
When the passion and collective strength of Paris Observatory restore sight to its Grande Lunette.
After two years of hard work, the "Grande Lunette et Grande Coupole de Meudon" (G3TLC) working group, in collaboration with Observatoire de Paris-PSL...
Highlights
Published on 3 February 2025
The mass of the Andromeda galaxy is revised downwards
Using the most sophisticated dynamical model of the Andromeda galaxy and of its past history, a team led by an astronomer from the LIRA at the Paris...
Press releases
Published on 21 January 2025
Astrophysics of the future: Observatoire de Paris-PSL, CNRS and their partners ready to take up the challenge
Observatoire de Paris - PSL and CNRS, along with their partner universities and organizations, are adopting a new scientific organization at the start of...
News from the labs
Published on 21 January 2025
Monster shocks at the origin of fast radio bursts
A new mechanism involving the production of coherent radio wave emission is proposed to explain the origin of fast radio bursts. In a full-length article in...
Highlights
Published on 20 January 2025
Have we discovered the smallest extra-solar planet?
Using pulsar timing techniques at the decimeter radio telescope of the Nançay Radio Observatory, an international team comprising researchers from CNRS,...
Highlights
Published on 16 January 2025
Gaia satellite ceases observations
January 15, 2025 marks the end of scientific observations by ESA’s Gaia satellite, after 3,827 days spent measuring... almost two billion objects in our...
Administrative news
Published on 15 January 2025
European EPTA consortium wins Royal Astronomical Society award
On January 10, 2025, the prestigious Group Achievement Award 2025 was officially presented by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) to the European Pulsar...
Highlights
Published on 14 January 2025
CTAO becomes a European Research Infrastructure Consortium
Preparations for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) reached a crucial milestone on January 7, 2025, when the European Commission awarded the...
Highlights
Published on 8 January 2025
Franco-Dutch team wins third SKAO Data Challenge
The international DOTSS-21 team, comprising researchers from France’s CNRS Terre & Univers (Observatoire de Paris, ENS) and the Netherlands (Kapteyn...
Administrative news
Published on 19 December 2024
Françoise Combes elected head of the French Academy of Sciences
Françoise Combes, an astrophysicist at the Observatoire de Paris - PSL and Professor at the Collège de France, was elected President of the Académie des...