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Highlights
Published on 21 June 2018
AU Microscopii and its mysterious waves…
In 2014, thanks to ESO’s SPHERE instrument, strange structures were found in the neighborhood of the star AU Microscopii. Paris Observatory astronomers have...
News from the labs
Published on 22 May 2018
A New Cosmological Ruler to track Dark Energy
To determine the characterisrtics of our Universe, and in particular the nature of the Dark Energy corresponding to 70% of its content, we must measure the...
Highlights
Published on 4 May 2018
What does a Cherenkov telescope look like? Find out via pictures.
The Paris Observatory is setting up on its Meudon site one of the prototypes of the « Cherenkov Telescope Array ». This future This upcoming large...
Highlights
Published on 17 April 2018
Calibration campaign for SuperCam - Mars
On March 9th 2018, the qualification model for SuperCam, the instrument which will be flown on NASA’s Rover Mars2020, passed successfully a series of tests...
Highlights
Published on 10 April 2018
Solar tornadoes are not tornadoes !
In spite of their appearance, «solar tornadoes» do not rotate. That is the conclusion of a team of European scientists, among whom is an astronomer from the...
Highlights
Published on 30 March 2018
Close monitoring of the path of the Chinese space station
At the Paris Observatory, the Institute for celestial mechanics and ephemeris computation (Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul des éphémérides -...
Highlights
Published on 23 March 2018
ESA’s green light for the ARIEL mission
Its official. On March 20th, 2018, ESA’s programme committee selected the ARIEL mission. It will at last be possible to start making it, to the deep...
Highlights
Published on 23 March 2018
C2ERES : how to be prepared for tomorrow’s space exploration?
Setup on the Meudon site of the Paris Observatory, C2ERES (Campus et Centre de Recherche pour l’Exploration Spatiale) is the space pole of the PSL University.
Highlights
Published on 29 January 2018
January 31st 2018: 3 facettes for one full Moon
«Super», «blue» and «blood red»: the full Moon on January 31st 2018 will display all of these three properties simultaneously. The Institute for celestial...
News from the labs
Published on 24 January 2018
Does quantum entanglement influence the universality of free fall?
Remi Geiger (Paris Observatory) and Michael Trupke (Vienna University) have proposed a conceptually new way of testing the foundational principle of General...