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News from the labs
Published on 8 March 2022
The cosmic web responsible of galaxy transformation
The shape of galaxies and how they evolve depend on a web of cosmological filaments that run across the Universe. According to a recent study of an...
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Published on 9 February 2022
The Cassini Division: a potential evidence for Saturn’s moons internal oceans
An international collaboration led by French researchers investigated the formation of the
Cassini Division, that divides Saturn’s bright rings. To that...
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Published on 9 February 2022
The most prominent asteroids in our Solar System
Thanks to the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO VLT) in Chile, astronomers have acquired images of 42 of the most prominent...
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Published on 17 January 2022
The first small bodies of the Solar System formed in two distinct rings
An international team including French researchers, notably from Paris Observatory - PSL, has shown, for the first time, that the first small bodies of the...
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Published on 14 January 2022
Green light from ESA for the continuation of the PLATO mission
Paris Observatory - PSL is pleased to announce that the European Space Agency has given the green light to continue the development of the PLATO space...
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Published on 5 January 2022
Discovery of the less "metallic" stars of the Milky Way
An international team including researchers from Paris Observatory - PSL, has discovered the least "metallic" stars in the Milky Way. This work was published...
News from the labs
Published on 4 January 2022
Solar Orbiter provides its first results
Solar Orbiter, from its early stages of scientific studies, is already producing a harvest of remarkable results. A special issue of Astronomy and...
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Published on 17 December 2021
Video: understanding how the Webb Telescope observes exoplanets
The French teams, including those of the Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique de l’Observatoire de Paris - PSL, having...
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Published on 14 December 2021
Exoplanets, new frontiers to explore for the James Webb Space Telescope
With the discovery of the first exoplanets in the 90’s a new field of exploration of modern astrophysics has appeared. Today, many projects or instruments,...
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Published on 9 December 2021
C/2021 A1 Leonard, the comet of the year?
On December 12, 2021, comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) will be at its closest to the Earth, at a little more than 35 million kilometers. The astronomers of the...