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Highlights
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...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
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,...
Highlights
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...
Highlights
Published on 30 November 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope explained by those who made it
This time, it’s here! The James Webb Space Telescope, or "Webb", is in Kourou and will be launched by an Ariane rocket on December 22, 2021. Yes, it is with...
Highlights
Published on 14 October 2021
Birth of a new meteor shower: "Les Arides"
After having predicted its coming, scientists from Paris Observatory - PSL were able to observe on October 7, 2021 in the Chilean sky, a new meteor shower,...
Highlights
Published on 13 October 2021
Radio signals from dwarf stars detected: indicators of hidden planets?
Thanks to the European giant radio telescope LOFAR, an international team including researchers from Paris Observatory - PSL, has discovered dwarf stars that...
Highlights
Published on 11 October 2021
The comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko is indeed a binary object !
A new study conducted by researchers from Paris Observatory - PSL at the Laboratory of Space Studies and Astrophysics Instrumentation on the Rosetta space...
Highlights
Published on 21 September 2021
WEAVE: weaving optical fibers to explore the cosmos
At the top of the Roque de Los Muchachos on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, the William Herschel telescope has just welcomed its new...