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News from the labs Published on 8 March 2021

Cosmological parameters from measurements of the sparsity of galaxy clusters

A team of astrophysicists from the Paris Observatory and INAF-Bologna has performed an estimation of the cosmological parameters using a new method based on...
Highlights Published on 23 February 2021

NEAR : in search of telluric planets in the Alpha system of the Centaurus

After perfecting the VISIR instrument, installed at the VLT, an international team including two researchers from Paris Observatory - PSL managed to obtain...
Highlights Published on 16 February 2021

Landing of Perseverance: at the Paris Observatory - PSL, we are getting ready

After having played a determining role in the development of SuperCam, the scientific teams of Paris Observatory - PSL at LESIA are preparing to intervene on...
Highlights Published on 9 February 2021

Where do fast radio bursts come from?


A team from Paris Observatory - PSL proposes an original model able to explain the mysterious "Fast Radio Bursts" (FRB). The study was published in December...
Highlights Published on 29 January 2021

Record laser link: if Einstein was right ...

In a study published this Friday, January 22, 2021 in the journal Nature Communications, a new world record for the most stable transmission of a laser...
News from the labs Published on 25 January 2021

CHEOPS finds unique planetary system tuned in a chain of Laplace resonances

The CHEOPS space telescope detects six planets orbiting the star TOI-178. Five of the planets are trapped in an exceptional chain of Laplace resonances in...
Highlights Published on 21 December 2020

Jupiter and Saturn meet in the sky

This Monday, December 21, 2020 in the early hours of the night, Jupiter and Saturn are very close together. On this rare phenomenon, the Institute of...
News from the labs Published on 16 October 2020

Phosphine on Venus : No detected traces in infrared spectra

An international team, coordinated by researchers from Paris Observatory - PSL, at LESIA, has searched for the signature of PH3 on Venus in infrared spectra....
News from the labs Published on 28 September 2020

First results of CHEOPS on an extreme exoplanet

The CHEOPS Space Telescope keeps its promises: Its first observations reveal the face of the exoplanet WASP-189b - one of the most extreme planets known....
Highlights Published on 25 September 2020

Stellar winds observed with unprecedented detail

Using the ALMA radio telescope (Chile), an international team, involving researchers from Paris Observatory - PSL obtains a record of stellar winds escaping...