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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...
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Published on 18 February 2019
CTA: the american prototype, with the same technology as the Meudon model
On Thursday 17th of January 2019, scientists from the Paris Observatory weer present at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (Arizona)for the...
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Published on 4 February 2019
Record breaking performance for a cold atom inertial sensor
A team of scientists at the time-space reference systems laboratory of the Paris Observatory is improving the efficiency of cold atomic detectors via a...
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Published on 23 January 2019
The January 21st 2019 total eclipse of the Moon in picturers
Exceptional meteorological conditions and a completely clear sky offered Paris Observatory astronomers optimal conditions to observe and photograph the total...
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Published on 12 December 2018
Comet Wirtanen in the December 2018 sky
On Sunday December 16th 2018, comet Wirtanen will pass very close to the Earth. In the case of known comets, this will be one of the best occasions for the...
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Published on 4 December 2018
When GALILEO confirms Einstein’s predictions
Time flows faster far from the Earth. This prediction, made by Einstein, has been successfully tested by physicists from the Paris Observatory - PSL in...