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Exhibitions and information Published on 5 July 2022

Paris Observatory - PSL, partner of the astronomy festival Rencontre en Ciel Pur in Saint Véran

On Sunday 10 and Monday 11 July 2022 will take place the astronomy festival of St-Véran. During 2 days, found workshops, conferences and round tables,...
Highlights Published on 1 July 2022

The historical talking clock leaves its place to the heurelegalefrancaise.fr website

More than 89 years after it was put into service at the Paris Observatory, the speaking clock that can be consulted by everyone by phone will stop its...
News from the labs Published on 24 June 2022

Accurate measurement of the Sagnac effect for matter waves

At the Paris Observatory - PSL, the "Atomic Interferometry and Inertial Sensors" team from SYRTE (Paris Observatory - PSL / CNRS / SU / LNE) published on...
Highlights Published on 14 June 2022

Publication of the third Gaia catalog

On Monday, June 13, 2022, the Gaia mission releases a new catalog, containing data for nearly two billion stars in our galaxy. 450 scientists from 20...
Administrative news Published on 24 May 2022

SuperCam scientists awarded by the Astronomical Society of France

On May 21, 2022, Pernelle Bernardi (Observatoire de Paris - PSL) and Sylvestre Maurice (IRAP) are awarded the International Astronautical Prize by the SAF.
Highlights Published on 17 May 2022

Dynamics of the binary asteroid (379) Huenna

Scientists from the Paris Observatory - PSL, the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur and the CNRS have detected a weak perturbation in the motion of an asteroid...
Highlights Published on 13 May 2022

Methane on a temperate mini-Neptune?

The announcement in 2019 of the detection of water vapor in the atmosphere of K2-18 b, an exoplanet of about 8 Earth masses located in the so-called...
News from the labs Published on 13 May 2022

A supermassive black hole kicked out of its galaxy

When two galaxies merge, the massive black holes lurking in their nuclei will merge rapidly. Their relative orbital energy will be radiated away through...
News from the labs Published on 6 May 2022

Shedding new light on planetary chaos

Are the orbits of the solar system planets stable? This question has arisen several times in history, especially when Henri Poincaré, at the end of the 19th...
Highlights Published on 4 May 2022

30 exocomets discovered in a young planetary system

The work of an international team has detected 30 comets around the star β Pictoris and determined the size of their nuclei. This is the first time that this...