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Published on 7 September 2021
Passage of a bolide in the French sky this Sunday September 5, 2021
A very luminous bolide was seen by many witnesses during the night of Sunday September 5, 2021, at 23h 47min (French legal time), from a large North-West...
News from the labs
Published on 29 August 2021
The paradox of solar polarization finally resolved by a French theory
The paradox of the polarization of the sodium line from the Sun, which dated from 1997, has been resolved. The paradox arose from an observation by Stenflo...
Highlights
Published on 11 June 2021
ESA gives green light to EnVision mission
On June 10, 2021, the ESA program committee selected the EnVision mission, thus renewing the exploration of Venus. The realization phase will thus be able to...
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Published on 7 June 2021
Live on June 10, 2021: the solar eclipse
On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at midday occurs an annular eclipse of the Sun. In France, it will be observable in a partial form. To allow everyone to enjoy...
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Published on 16 April 2021
The asteroid Apophis observed for the first time by stellar occultation
The near-Earth asteroid Apophis is being closely monitored on a planetary scale because of its very close passage to the Earth in 2029. For the first time,...
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Published on 1 April 2021
How to find the geographic North on Mars?
After the SEIS seismometer landed on Mars in 2018, Denis Savoie, astronomer at Paris Observatory - PSL at SYRTE and a leading French specialist in gnomonics...
Highlights
Published on 19 March 2021
New visit of the asteroid 2001 FO32
Asteroid 2001 FO32 will pass within two million kilometers of our planet on Sunday, March 21, 2021. Should we worry about it? Not really, according to...
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Published on 15 March 2021
Towards a new generation of non-destructive quantum cold atom detectors
On February 24, 2021, in a Nature Portfolio journal, the SYstèmes de Référence Temps Espace (SYTRE) department of Paris Observatory - PSL published an...
Highlights
Published on 11 March 2021
Successful test phase for the French SuperCam instrument on the Perseverance rover
Three weeks after the remarkable landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars on February 18, 2021, the SuperCam instrument has just completed its technical...
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Published on 10 March 2021
SPHERE, twenty years of challenges and successes
On Tuesday March 9, 2021, the SPHERE consortium celebrates its 100th scientific publication. It is the crowning of an instrumental success in which the LESIA...