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A young planetary system revealed by one of the JWST coronagraphs
Developed at Paris Observatory - PSL, the coronagraph of the Webb Telescope’s MIRI instrument is living up to its promise. In the as-yet unexplored...
ESA’s Euclid mission delivers its first scientific results
On Thursday May 23, 2024, the Euclid consortium, including scientists from Paris Observatory - PSL, publishes its first scientific papers based on...
What’s the weather like on the exoplanet WASP-43 b?
An international team, including researchers from CEA and Observatoire de Paris - PSL, is mapping the meteorology of the hot gas giant WASP-43 b, using the...
Saturn’s moon hides a vast ocean beneath its surface
After ten years of suspense following the discovery of an anomaly in its rotation, Mimas, the smallest of Saturn’s eight main moons, has finally been proven...
NASA confirms Dragonfly mission
NASA has just confirmed the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s organic-rich moon Titan for April 2024. This decision allows the mission to progress to completion...
Facts about comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
An evening visitor in the spring of 2024, comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is visible from the metropolis in the early hours of the morning until early April. A sight...
Lunar chronology revised by bombardment heterogeneity
An international team involving the IMCCE is recalibrating the study of lunar samples, taking into account for the first time the heterogeneity of the...
Triton atmospheric pressure: a new value is obtained
Triton, Neptune’s main satellite, passed in front of a star on October 6, 2022. This phenomenon prompted a vast campaign of observations in India, China and...
Is it raining rocks on WASP-43 b?
By comparing observations from the Webb telescope with numerical simulations from a climate model tailor-made for "hot Jupiter" exoplanets, a scientific team...
Serendipitous discovery of a bizarre pulsar, named PARROT
In an article published on February 21, 2024, in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, an international team including an astronomer...