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Published on 21 September 2018
Milky Way churned up by galactic fender bender
The movements of over six million stars in the Milky Way have been tracked, revealing that groups of stars follow different courses as they orbit the...
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Published on 30 August 2018
Energetic lightshow at Saturn’s north pole
An international team, coordinated by an astronomer of Observatoire de Paris, using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope have taken a series of spectacular...
Administrative news
Published on 31 July 2018
French consortium joins SKA organization
A consortium of French research centers and industsrial groups has become the 12th member of the SKA organization, following approval of its memberrship by...
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...
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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...