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Highlights
Published on 18 July 2019
In Ardèche, hunting meteorites
Discover the audio report produced by the CNRS Journal, broadcast on July 1, 2019, dedicated to a recent fight by astronomer François Colas of the...
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Published on 29 May 2019
The solar eclipse of 1919 reappears in the archives of the Observatoire de Paris!
Le centenaire de l’observation de l’éclipse solaire du 29 mai 1919 par des astronomes britanniques fait l’objet d’un colloque scientifique de l’Union...
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Published on 23 May 2019
Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth’s Oceans
The mystery of why Earth has so much water, allowing our “blue marble” to support an astounding array of life, is clearer with new research into comets....
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Published on 14 May 2019
Gaia has discovered 3 new asteroids
In December 2018 ESA’s Gaia satellite found three heretofore unknown asteroids. This discovery was confirmed with the help of an extremely efficient...
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Published on 10 May 2019
Spring on Pluto: an analysis over 30 years
Whenever it passes in front of a star, Pluto provides precious information about its atmosphere, precious because occultations by Pluto are rare. The survey...
News from the labs
Published on 15 April 2019
Supersonic winds in Titan’s upper atmosphere
An international team led by researchers from the LESIA obtained the first direct measurement of the wind speed in the upper atmosphere of Titan using the...
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Published on 8 April 2019
A new laser to measure carbon dioxide
An international team of scientists from Heidelberg University and from the Paris Observatory’s Laboratory for the study of radiation (Observatoire de...
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Published on 27 March 2019
Storm on an exoplanet
With the help of optical interferometry, an international team of scientists led by a CNRS scientist from the Observatoire de Paris – PSL in the Laboratory...
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Published on 18 March 2019
The Large Magellanic Cloud is 1,53 billion km away
The distance of the Large Magellanic Coud, the closest satellite galaxy to the Milky Way, has been determined with a heretofore unequaled and formal accuracy...
News from the labs
Published on 24 February 2019
The echo of the stellar bar formation in our Galaxy captured by Gaia
New numerical simulations of the bar formation in the Milky Way, carried out by astronomers of Paris Observatory, show that it is possible to explain the...