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Published on 3 February 2023
Observing comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
The comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is visible in the sky throughout February 2023, even if its brightness allows to perceive it only weakly with the naked eye. The...
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Published on 20 January 2023
Why does the heart of the stars rotate less quickly than expected?
Three French scientists, including a CNRS researcher from Paris Observatory - PSL, explain in an article published in Science on January 20, 2023 why the...
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Published on 20 January 2023
Discovery of a rare binary star
An international team including two CNRS researchers from Paris Observatory - PSL has just discovered with the VLT a rare binary star, because very poor in...
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Published on 16 January 2023
Time transmission from Paris to Turin by optical fiber
An international team of physicists has developed a 1,023 km fiber optic link between the SYRTE laboratory of the Observatoire de Paris - PSL and INRIM in...
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Published on 16 December 2022
SWOT: a satellite to map the Earth’s water cycle
The launch of the NASA SWOT satellite on Thursday, December 15, 2022 opens a new path for satellite altimetry and promises a complete coverage of surface...
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Published on 26 September 2022
The impact of DART on Dimorphos followed by the Paris Observatory - PSL
DART is NASA’s first planetary defense test mission. The Paris Observatory - PSL is a member of the DART Investigation Team. On Tuesday, September 27, 2022,...
News from the labs
Published on 24 September 2022
How to measure magnetic fields within binary systems emitting gravitational waves?
In a recent study published in Physical Review D, a team from SYRTE in Observatoire de Paris and LDE3 from DAp/IRFU at CEA, demonstrated that the effect of...
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Published on 7 September 2022
The James Webb Telescope delivers its first images of an exoplanet
At the beginning of September 2022, nine months after its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope provides unprecedented images of an exoplanet, the first...
News from the labs
Published on 1 September 2022
A coherent scenario for the Earth-Moon distance evolution
Due to tidal friction, the Earth’s rotation slows down and the Moon goes away. This is measured with centimetre precision using Lunar Laser ranging. But up...
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Published on 26 August 2022
A slow recovery for the star Betelgeuse
Through a publication dated August 4, 2022 in The Astrophysical Journal, an international scientific team, including an astrophysicist from Paris Observatory...