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Birth of future planetary systems in a double star
An international team including an astronomer from Paris Observatory -PSL obtains the most detailed and complete study to date of a double star in the very...
The Cassini Division: a potential evidence for Saturn’s moons internal oceans
An international collaboration led by French researchers investigated the formation of the
Cassini Division, that divides Saturn’s bright rings. To that...
The most prominent asteroids in our Solar System
Thanks to the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO VLT) in Chile, astronomers have acquired images of 42 of the most prominent...
The first small bodies of the Solar System formed in two distinct rings
An international team including French researchers, notably from Paris Observatory - PSL, has shown, for the first time, that the first small bodies of the...
Green light from ESA for the continuation of the PLATO mission
Paris Observatory - PSL is pleased to announce that the European Space Agency has given the green light to continue the development of the PLATO space...
Discovery of the less "metallic" stars of the Milky Way
An international team including researchers from Paris Observatory - PSL, has discovered the least "metallic" stars in the Milky Way. This work was published...
Video: understanding how the Webb Telescope observes exoplanets
The French teams, including those of the Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique de l’Observatoire de Paris - PSL, having...
Exoplanets, new frontiers to explore for the James Webb Space Telescope
With the discovery of the first exoplanets in the 90’s a new field of exploration of modern astrophysics has appeared. Today, many projects or instruments,...
C/2021 A1 Leonard, the comet of the year?
On December 12, 2021, comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) will be at its closest to the Earth, at a little more than 35 million kilometers. The astronomers of the...
The James Webb Space Telescope explained by those who made it
This time, it’s here! The James Webb Space Telescope, or "Webb", is in Kourou and will be launched by an Ariane rocket on December 22, 2021. Yes, it is with...