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Published on 16 April 2021
The asteroid Apophis observed for the first time by stellar occultation
The near-Earth asteroid Apophis is being closely monitored on a planetary scale because of its very close passage to the Earth in 2029. For the first time,...
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Published on 1 April 2021
How to find the geographic North on Mars?
After the SEIS seismometer landed on Mars in 2018, Denis Savoie, astronomer at Paris Observatory - PSL at SYRTE and a leading French specialist in gnomonics...
Highlights
Published on 19 March 2021
New visit of the asteroid 2001 FO32
Asteroid 2001 FO32 will pass within two million kilometers of our planet on Sunday, March 21, 2021. Should we worry about it? Not really, according to...
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Published on 15 March 2021
Towards a new generation of non-destructive quantum cold atom detectors
On February 24, 2021, in a Nature Portfolio journal, the SYstèmes de Référence Temps Espace (SYTRE) department of Paris Observatory - PSL published an...
Highlights
Published on 11 March 2021
Successful test phase for the French SuperCam instrument on the Perseverance rover
Three weeks after the remarkable landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars on February 18, 2021, the SuperCam instrument has just completed its technical...
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Published on 10 March 2021
SPHERE, twenty years of challenges and successes
On Tuesday March 9, 2021, the SPHERE consortium celebrates its 100th scientific publication. It is the crowning of an instrumental success in which the LESIA...
News from the labs
Published on 8 March 2021
Cosmological parameters from measurements of the sparsity of galaxy clusters
A team of astrophysicists from the Paris Observatory and INAF-Bologna has performed an estimation of the cosmological parameters using a new method based on...
Highlights
Published on 23 February 2021
NEAR : in search of telluric planets in the Alpha system of the Centaurus
After perfecting the VISIR instrument, installed at the VLT, an international team including two researchers from Paris Observatory - PSL managed to obtain...
Highlights
Published on 16 February 2021
Landing of Perseverance: at the Paris Observatory - PSL, we are getting ready
After having played a determining role in the development of SuperCam, the scientific teams of Paris Observatory - PSL at LESIA are preparing to intervene on...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 12 February 2021
Live the landing of Perseverance, the new Martian astromobile!
Thursday, February 18, 2021, at 9:55 pm (Paris time), Perseverance lands on Mars in the Jezero crater. A thrilling event that the Cité des sciences invites...