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Highlights
Published on 26 November 2019
The first detection of very high energy gamma ray bursts
Two gamma ray bursts have just broken the current energy record.
Highlights
Published on 26 November 2019
First ever satellite using iodine propulsion
On November 3rd 2019, the first ever satellite using iodine propulsion was sent into space. This innovation in the history of satellites was made possible...
Highlights
Published on 6 November 2019
Solar Orbiter on the way to Cape Canaveral
On Tuesday, October 15th 2019, the Solar Orbiter probe was declared as ready and was transferred to its launch site at Cape Canaveral in the U.S.A. On...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 6 November 2019
Do not miss Mercury on November 11, 2019
Monday November 11, 2019, Mercury will pass in front of the Sun. On this occasion, Observatoire de Paris - PSL is mobilized to allow you to follow this rare...
Administrative news
Published on 6 November 2019
Winner of the 2019 Prize "Sciences de l’Univers" of the Academy of Sciences
The astrophysicist Bruno Sicardy was awarded the 2019 Paul Doisteau-Emile Blutet prize during a ceremony which took place under the dome of the Institut de...
Administrative news
Published on 4 November 2019
Océane Barraud, laureate of the contest "Chronothesis: my thesis in 5 minutes"
Friday, October 11, 2019, Océane Barraud won the competition of the French Association of Astronomy (AFA) "Chronothesis: my thesis in 5 minutes".
News from the labs
Published on 24 October 2019
A new constraint on the mass of "graviton"
Scientists from the observatories of Paris and Côte d’Azur, as well as the scientific center of Monaco, have used solar system data in order to constrain the...
Administrative news
Published on 11 October 2019
Michel Mayor et Didier Queloz, 2019 physics Nobel prize winners
Michel Mayor, 2008 Paris Observatory Doctor Honoris Causa, and Didier Queloz are Physics Nobel Prize winners for October 8th 2019. A well merited...
News : teaching
Published on 10 October 2019
The Paris Observa-tory launches a new MOOC
The Paris Observatory is launching on the France Université Numérique (FUN) platform a new MOOC : "Mesurer l’Univers - Measuring the Universe". You may...
Highlights
Published on 8 October 2019
Inauguration of NenuFAR, a radiotelescope unlike any other in the world
On thursday, October 3rd 2019, the Observatoire de Paris, Orleans University and the CNRS inaugurated at the Nançay radio-astronomical station NenuFAR,...