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ESA’s Cluster mission draws to a close
After 24 years of loyal service in space, ESA’s Cluster mission is about to draw to a close. On September 8, 2024 at 20:02 CEST, the Salsa satellite (the 2nd...
The ELT’s MICADO instrument enters the construction phase
On September 3, 2024, ESO successfully completed the final design review of MICADO, the future high-resolution camera for the Extremely Large Telescope. This...
Help Euclid scientists classify galaxies...
From August 1, 2024, the members of the Euclid consortium, including scientists from Paris Observatory - PSL, invite you to take part in a citizen science...
A cold super-Jupiter pictured on the outskirts of the Solar System
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international scientific team, including two researchers from Paris Observatory - PSL, has succeeded in...
Discovering the seas on Titan
Outside the Earth, the only seas known to date in the Solar System are on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Using data formerly collected by the Cassini probe,...
"Thirty years on...: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9’s collision with Jupiter".
Exactly thirty years ago, a rare event captivated astronomers. On July 16, 1994, multiple telescopes turned towards the planet Jupiter to observe live the...
International LOFAR Telescope evolves into European consortium
The ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) LOFAR, officially launched on January 22, was inaugurated on June 10, 2024 in Dwingeloo (Netherlands)....
Successful launch of the Franco-Chinese SVOM space mission
On June 22, 2024, the Franco-Chinese SVOM space mission was successfully launched by the Chinese Long March 2C launcher from the Xichang launch base in...
The origin of the "slow" solar wind: an enigma solved!
How is the solar wind created? Despite decades of observations and modeling, the causes of this phenomenon, which originates at the Sun’s surface, and the...
Discovery of an exo-Earth around an ultra-cold star
A scientific team, including a researcher from Observatoire de Paris - PSL, has announced the discovery of SPECULOOS-3b: a rocky planet the size of Earth...