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The fastest star in the Milky Way orbits so close to our supermassive black hole that it feels its rotation
Thanks to the performance of GRAVITY+, the VLTI instrument in Chile, and new analytical methods developed in part at the Paris Observatory – PSL, an...
A system of at least six exoplanets revealed after ten years of observations
An international team, including scientists from the Paris Observatory - PSL at the Time-Space Laboratory, has spent ten years studying an exceptional...
Origin, evolution, and fate of Titan’s polar clouds
In an article published in the journal Nature Communications on December 4, 2025, a French scientific team led by a researcher from the Paris Observatory -...
SVOM detects signal from supernova dating back 13 billion years
SVOM begins its exploration of the distant universe: detection of a gamma-ray burst caused by a supernova that exploded 13 billion years ago. Researchers...
Four laser stars herald a new era for interferometry at the VLT
In early November 2025, four lasers fired from each of the four large 8-metre telescopes at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) were used to create...
Radio bursts reveal small-scale magnetic arches on the star AD Leonis
An international team has recorded radio emission originating from a red dwarf star with unprecedented time resolution. Astronomers from Peking University in...
Winds, Jets, and Wigglings from Young Stars and Their Disks
An international team of astronomers, including one researcher from Paris Observatory, has observed with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover...
Monster shocks at the origin of fast radio bursts
A new mechanism involving the production of coherent radio wave emission is proposed to explain the origin of fast radio bursts. In a full-length article in...
GW230529: Observation of the merger of a neutron star and an unknown compact object
On May 29, 2023, during the first part of the fourth observation period (O4a) of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA, detectors, a particular merger of two stars was...
The solar eclipse of April 8, 2024... partially visible in overseas France
On April 8, 2024, the first total solar eclipse of the year will take place. French citizens will be able to see a partial eclipse in certain overseas...