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News from the labs
Published on 6 May 2022
Shedding new light on planetary chaos
Are the orbits of the solar system planets stable? This question has arisen several times in history, especially when Henri Poincaré, at the end of the 19th...
Highlights
Published on 4 May 2022
30 exocomets discovered in a young planetary system
The work of an international team has detected 30 comets around the star β Pictoris and determined the size of their nuclei. This is the first time that this...
News from the labs
Published on 18 March 2022
Enlight the dark sector of the Universe with RAYGAL simulations
What is the connection between the universe as it is and the universe as we see it? To this philosophical question, science could provide the beginning of an...
Highlights
Published on 18 March 2022
France participates in Nasa’s Dragonfly mission to explore Titan
The Observatoire de Paris - PSL is pleased with the official entry of France in the space mission Dragonfly, announced on March 14, 2022 by the CNES and the...
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Published on 14 March 2022
Birth of future planetary systems in a double star
An international team including an astronomer from Paris Observatory -PSL obtains the most detailed and complete study to date of a double star in the very...
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...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...