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The first detection of very high energy gamma ray bursts
Two gamma ray bursts have just broken the current energy record.
First ever satellite using iodine propulsion
On November 3rd 2019, the first ever satellite using iodine propulsion was sent into space. This innovation in the history of satellites was made possible...
Solar Orbiter on the way to Cape Canaveral
On Tuesday, October 15th 2019, the Solar Orbiter probe was declared as ready and was transferred to its launch site at Cape Canaveral in the U.S.A. On...
Inauguration of NenuFAR, a radiotelescope unlike any other in the world
On thursday, October 3rd 2019, the Observatoire de Paris, Orleans University and the CNRS inaugurated at the Nançay radio-astronomical station NenuFAR,...
Is climate being taught the way it should in France?
Climatic questions dominated the news for the month of September: a summit at the United Nations in New York, un sommet des Nations unies à New York,...
Selenography: 350 years of lunar mapping
For the fiftieth anniversary of Man’s first step on the Moon, on July 20-21 2019, the Paris Observatory will open its own unequalled maps of the Moon....
Giant bubbles discovered close to the center of the Milky Way
An international team of astronomers, including a French scientist at the Paris Observatory - PSL has discovered, using the MeerKAT radio-telescope in...
The Cosmic Snake reveals huge molecular clouds
An international team including scientists from the Paris Observatory - PSL has detected clouds of molecules in a galaxy 8 billion light years away. This...
Ane Aanesland, CNRS 2019 medalist for innovation
CNRS scientist at the plasma physics laboratory (CNRS/Ecole polytechnique/Observatoire de Paris/Université Paris-Sud/Sorbonne Université), Ane Aanesland...
In Ardèche, hunting meteorites
Discover the audio report produced by the CNRS Journal, broadcast on July 1, 2019, dedicated to a recent fight by astronomer François Colas of the...