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Highlights
Published on 31 July 2018
SuperCam: delivery of the IR spectrometer flight model
Mardi 17 juillet 2018, le Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique de l’Observatoire de Paris livre à l’Institut de recherche en...
Highlights
Published on 31 July 2018
The longest lunar eclipse of the century
Une éclipse de Lune sera visible depuis une grande partie du territoire français ce vendredi 27 juillet 2018. L’Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul...
Highlights
Published on 31 July 2018
The perihelic opposition of Mars
Ce 27 juillet 2018, la distance entre Mars et la Terre atteint un minimum. La planète rouge sera dite en grande opposition, montrant une taille apparente et...
Administrative news
Published on 13 July 2018
Inauguration of PSL’s space technological complex
The Space Technological Complex (Le Complexe technologique pour le spatial - CTS) of PSL, at the Paris Observatory (Meudon site), was inaugurated on June...
Highlights
Published on 13 July 2018
A unique data set for ten solar cycles
On July 11th 2018, the Paris Observatory will have accumulated 110 years worth of daily observations of the Sun. Its image collection constitutes the memory...
Highlights
Published on 12 July 2018
SPHERE discovers its first protoplanet
The SPHERE instrument, installed at ESO’s VLT has enabled one to identify for the first time a protoplanet nested within a transition disc around the star...
Highlights
Published on 3 July 2018
Hayabusa2 has reached its target, the asteroid Ryugu
On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 reached its target, the ancient asteroid Ryugu. Antonella Barucci, astronomer at the Paris...
Highlights
Published on 21 June 2018
AU Microscopii and its mysterious waves…
In 2014, thanks to ESO’s SPHERE instrument, strange structures were found in the neighborhood of the star AU Microscopii. Paris Observatory astronomers have...
Exhibitions and information
Published on 5 June 2018
May 16th 2018 | The UNESCO International Day of Light
For the UNESCO 2018 International Day of Light, the Paris Observatory, in association with the group «Ars Mathematica» will organize at its Paris site a...
News from the labs
Published on 22 May 2018
A New Cosmological Ruler to track Dark Energy
To determine the characterisrtics of our Universe, and in particular the nature of the Dark Energy corresponding to 70% of its content, we must measure the...