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Published on 23 July 2020
Solar Orbiter’s first views of the Sun
At its press conference on 16 July 2020, the European Space Agency released the first images of the Sun obtained in EUV (Extreme Ultra-Violet) during Solar...
News from the labs
Published on 2 July 2020
Discovery of an extrasolar system with two strongly interacting planets
An international team led by Guillaume Hébrard, researcher at Institut d’astrophysique de Paris, and involving researchers from Paris Observatory has...
Highlights
Published on 22 June 2020
A new camera to track traces of life on Mars
On July 17, 2020 NASA’s next Mars mission, Mars2020, will take off. On board, the Perseverance rover will search for traces of fossil life and identify...
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Published on 19 June 2020
The solar eclipse of June 21, 2020
On June 21, 2020, the day after the summer solstice day, an annular eclipse of the Sun occurs. This is the fifteenth such eclipse in the 21ste century. At...
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Published on 18 June 2020
Nanosatellites also make it possible to do science
Satellites are everywhere and more and more numerous. They’re responding to our greed for data streams. After the era of large satellites in geostationary...
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Published on 2 June 2020
Link established with emerging microbial activity on the primitive Earth
Scientists from PSL University, within the ENS - PSL and Paris Observatory - PSL, in collaboration with CNRS researchers members of the UMI iGLOBES of the...
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Published on 26 May 2020
Presentation of the Charles Defforey Foundation Scientific Grand Prize
This year 2020, the Scientific Grand Prize, on the theme "Exoplanets", is awarded to Jean-Luc Beuzit [Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, CNES, LAM (Marseille)],...
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Published on 25 May 2020
Two CNRS Crystal Medal winners
Two exceptional women, working in laboratories affiliated to the Paris Observatory - PSL are among the 24 laureates who are awarded the CNRS 2020 Crystal...
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Published on 20 May 2020
Signs of a planet forming around the star AB Aurigae
New observations of the stellar system AB Aurigae were carried out under the direction of a CNRS researcher from Paris Observatory - PSL, using the SPHERE...
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Published on 15 May 2020
Waltzing with the black hole at the center of our galaxy
We recently announced the detection of a very peculiar effect: a star from the center of our Galaxy is "dancing" in orbit around the supermassive black hole...