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Highlights
Published on 6 November 2019
Solar Orbiter on the way to Cape Canaveral
On Tuesday, October 15th 2019, the Solar Orbiter probe was declared as ready and was transferred to its launch site at Cape Canaveral in the U.S.A. On...
News from the labs
Published on 24 October 2019
A new constraint on the mass of "graviton"
Scientists from the observatories of Paris and Côte d’Azur, as well as the scientific center of Monaco, have used solar system data in order to constrain the...
Highlights
Published on 8 October 2019
Inauguration of NenuFAR, a radiotelescope unlike any other in the world
On thursday, October 3rd 2019, the Observatoire de Paris, Orleans University and the CNRS inaugurated at the Nançay radio-astronomical station NenuFAR,...
Highlights
Published on 8 October 2019
Is climate being taught the way it should in France?
Climatic questions dominated the news for the month of September: a summit at the United Nations in New York, un sommet des Nations unies à New York,...
News from the labs
Published on 30 September 2019
The Cosmic Jellyfish in Norma seen by ALMA
A galaxy may have all its gas swept out by ram-pressure when entering a galaxy cluster at high velocity. The result looks like a jelly-fish, where the head...
Highlights
Published on 19 September 2019
Selenography: 350 years of lunar mapping
For the fiftieth anniversary of Man’s first step on the Moon, on July 20-21 2019, the Paris Observatory will open its own unequalled maps of the Moon....
Highlights
Published on 18 September 2019
Giant bubbles discovered close to the center of the Milky Way
An international team of astronomers, including a French scientist at the Paris Observatory - PSL has discovered, using the MeerKAT radio-telescope in...
Highlights
Published on 16 September 2019
The Cosmic Snake reveals huge molecular clouds
An international team including scientists from the Paris Observatory - PSL has detected clouds of molecules in a galaxy 8 billion light years away. This...
Highlights
Published on 16 September 2019
Ane Aanesland, CNRS 2019 medalist for innovation
CNRS scientist at the plasma physics laboratory (CNRS/Ecole polytechnique/Observatoire de Paris/Université Paris-Sud/Sorbonne Université), Ane Aanesland...
News from the labs
Published on 6 September 2019
Radio emission from a pulsar’s magnetic pole revealed by general relativity
Using data from the Arecibo and Nançay radio telescopes collected over the past 14 years, a scientific team led by a researcher at the Paris Observatory was...