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Highlights Published on 6 November 2018

Transparent ice on Mars!

How can one show that there is transparent ice on Mars? By the very definition of "transparent", the observer sees through the object, and so it is very...
Highlights Published on 2 November 2018

Most Detailed Observations of Material Orbiting close to a Black Hole

ESO’s exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre...
Highlights Published on 29 October 2018

Passage of a very bright bolide in the French sky

Un bolide très brillant a été vu ce matin du jeudi 11 octobre 2018, à 7h27 (temps légal français), dans le ciel de la moitié nord de la France, par de...
Highlights Published on 29 October 2018

Discovery of a second non-carbon star in the Galaxy

An international team oàf scientists including French CNRS astrophysicists from the Strasbourg astronomical observatory, from the Côte d’Azur observatory...
Highlights Published on 29 October 2018

Confirmed, a universal law opens perspectives for exoplanets

Partant de l’analyse fine des émissions radio entre Jupiter et son satellite Io, des astrophysiciens de l’Observatoire de Paris - PSL apporte une...
Administrative news Published on 23 October 2018

Signature of a Memorandum of Collaboration between ESA and PSL

Université PSL and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a Memorandum of Collaboration leading to the creation of the ESA_Lab@PSL, which will be...
Highlights 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...
Highlights 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...