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Highlights
Published on 6 August 2024
Help Euclid scientists classify galaxies...
From August 1, 2024, the members of the Euclid consortium, including scientists from Paris Observatory - PSL, invite you to take part in a citizen science...
Highlights
Published on 24 July 2024
A cold super-Jupiter pictured on the outskirts of the Solar System
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international scientific team, including two researchers from Paris Observatory - PSL, has succeeded in...
Highlights
Published on 16 July 2024
Discovering the seas on Titan
Outside the Earth, the only seas known to date in the Solar System are on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Using data formerly collected by the Cassini probe,...
Press releases
Published on 11 July 2024
First evidence of a super-earth ocean
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of French planetary scientists, including a CNRS researcher from Observatoire de Paris - PSL, in...
Highlights
Published on 9 July 2024
"Thirty years on...: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9’s collision with Jupiter".
Exactly thirty years ago, a rare event captivated astronomers. On July 16, 1994, multiple telescopes turned towards the planet Jupiter to observe live the...
Highlights
Published on 4 July 2024
International LOFAR Telescope evolves into European consortium
The ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) LOFAR, officially launched on January 22, was inaugurated on June 10, 2024 in Dwingeloo (Netherlands)....
Highlights
Published on 26 June 2024
Successful launch of the Franco-Chinese SVOM space mission
On June 22, 2024, the Franco-Chinese SVOM space mission was successfully launched by the Chinese Long March 2C launcher from the Xichang launch base in...
Press releases
Published on 24 June 2024
First observation of brown dwarfs very close to their host stars
In France, the scientists involved are CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes and Observatoire de Paris - PSL [1] have observed brown dwarfs orbiting very close to...
Highlights
Published on 6 June 2024
The origin of the "slow" solar wind: an enigma solved!
How is the solar wind created? Despite decades of observations and modeling, the causes of this phenomenon, which originates at the Sun’s surface, and the...
Highlights
Published on 6 June 2024
Discovery of an exo-Earth around an ultra-cold star
A scientific team, including a researcher from Observatoire de Paris - PSL, has announced the discovery of SPECULOOS-3b: a rocky planet the size of Earth...