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The “pocket rings“ of the small body Chariklo are evolving
Discovered in 2013, the two pocket rings of the small body Chariklo now show signs of evolution in their structure and opacity. This discovery was made...
First light for the VLT’s MOONS spectrograph in Chile
Le spectrographe MOONS vient de franchir avec succès une étape majeure : ses premières observations, réalisées cet été au Very Large Telescope (VLT) de l’ESO...
Visual proof: Betelgeuse does have a companion star
An international team led by an astronomer from Paris Observatory – PSL, involving scientists from the CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes and the Côte d’Azur...
When the MAJIS instrument, aboard the JUICE mission, crosses paths with the 3I/ATLAS interstellar spacecraft
The French instrument, to which the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Research in Astrophysics (LIRA) at the Paris Observatory – PSL is contributing, has...
The detection of radio bursts from stellar and exoplanetary systems
Building on the expertise of researchers at Paris Observatory - PSL, CNRS and Sorbonne University, an international team has developed a novel analysis...
Electric discharges detected on Mars for the first time
Electric discharges have for the first time been recorded within the storms and whirlwinds of dust – known as dust devils – that sweep across the surface of...
Evidence of a Massive Stellar Storm on a Nearby Star
An international team of astronomers, led by ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) and the Observatoire de Paris-PSL, have observed the first...
A mysterious gamma-ray burst, unlike any previously detected
A scientific team, including a CNRS researcher from the Paris Observatory - PSL, observed a gamma-ray burst that repeated several times over the course of a...
Primitive meteorites: a new study explains why they are so rare on Earth
While space missions such as OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 bring back samples of carbon-rich asteroids, one question still puzzles scientists: why do we find so...
Astrophysics of the future: Observatoire de Paris-PSL, CNRS and their partners ready to take up the challenge
Observatoire de Paris - PSL and CNRS, along with their partner universities and organizations, are adopting a new scientific organization at the start of...