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Administrative news
Published on 4 June 2021
A historic step with the accession of France to SKAO
France officially becomes a member of SKA Observatory (SKAO). Closely involved in the development of SKA, the future giant of world radio astronomy, the...
News : teaching
Published on 26 May 2021
Open enrolment: University degree in Exploring and Understanding the Universe
Registrations for the University Diploma "Exploring and Understanding the Universe" at Paris Observatory - PSL are open until September 5, 2021.
Administrative news
Published on 29 April 2021
An ERC Advanced grant to study radio emissions from exoplanets
On April 22, 2021, the European Research Council announced the selection of the 209 winners of the "ERC Advanced Grant 2020" call. The team led by Philippe...
Highlights
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,...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...