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Published on 18 September 2020
The Paris Observatory - PSL, partner of the exhibition "Science in Meudon".
Produced by the Musée d’art et d’histoire de la Ville de Meudon, the exhibition "Science in Meudon" follows in the footsteps of the major scientific...
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Published on 30 July 2020
Mars2020: a successful launch!
This Thursday, July 30, 2020, at 1:50 p.m. (Paris time), NASA’s Mars2020 was sent into space from Cape Canaveral. It carries on its board the Perseverance...
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Published on 30 July 2020
Aerographite: a promising material for photonic sails
A study in press in the European journal Astronomy & Astrophysics shows that aerographite, a form of carbon first synthesized in 2012, has promising...
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Published on 30 July 2020
NEOWISE, bright comet visible to the naked eye
Nicolas Biver, astrophysicist CNRS at the Paris Observatory - PSL, goes every night to meet the comet NEOWISE to photograph it. With the help of photographs,...
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Published on 30 July 2020
Major contribution of Paris Observatory to SuperCam on Mars2020
Between July 30 and August 15, 2020, NASA’s Mars2020 mission will be launched from Cape Canaveral and will take the Perseverance rover to the surface of...
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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...