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Highlights Published on 29 October 2018

Discovery of a second non-carbon star in the Galaxy

An international team oàf scientists including French CNRS astrophysicists from the Strasbourg astronomical observatory, from the Côte d’Azur observatory...
Highlights Published on 29 October 2018

Confirmed, a universal law opens perspectives for exoplanets

Partant de l’analyse fine des émissions radio entre Jupiter et son satellite Io, des astrophysiciens de l’Observatoire de Paris - PSL apporte une...
Highlights Published on 21 September 2018

Milky Way churned up by galactic fender bender

The movements of over six million stars in the Milky Way have been tracked, revealing that groups of stars follow different courses as they orbit the...
Highlights Published on 30 August 2018

Energetic lightshow at Saturn’s north pole

An international team, coordinated by an astronomer of Observatoire de Paris, using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope have taken a series of spectacular...
Highlights Published on 31 July 2018

SuperCam: delivery of the IR spectrometer flight model

Mardi 17 juillet 2018, le Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique de l’Observatoire de Paris livre à l’Institut de recherche en...
Highlights Published on 31 July 2018

The longest lunar eclipse of the century

Une éclipse de Lune sera visible depuis une grande partie du territoire français ce vendredi 27 juillet 2018. L’Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul...
Highlights Published on 31 July 2018

The perihelic opposition of Mars

Ce 27 juillet 2018, la distance entre Mars et la Terre atteint un minimum. La planète rouge sera dite en grande opposition, montrant une taille apparente et...
Highlights Published on 13 July 2018

A unique data set for ten solar cycles

On July 11th 2018, the Paris Observatory will have accumulated 110 years worth of daily observations of the Sun. Its image collection constitutes the memory...
Highlights Published on 12 July 2018

SPHERE discovers its first protoplanet

The SPHERE instrument, installed at ESO’s VLT has enabled one to identify for the first time a protoplanet nested within a transition disc around the star...
Highlights Published on 3 July 2018

Hayabusa2 has reached its target, the asteroid Ryugu

On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 reached its target, the ancient asteroid Ryugu. Antonella Barucci, astronomer at the Paris...