Paris Observatory offers a wide range of digital resources to help you discover, understand and learn more about astronomy and the sciences of the Universe. Educational videos, online conferences and seminars, thematic portals and virtual exhibitions invite you to explore knowledge freely, from home or in the classroom.
Most of the resources are in French.
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Observatoires astronomiques - Balade dessinée de Paris en Provence This exhibition invites you to rediscover the sites of the Paris, Meudon, Nançay, Marseille and Haute-Provence observatories, through the pencils of Sylvain Cnudde, cartoonist and graphic designer at LIRA, Paris Observatory. Discover them on the digital library website |
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Developed by the Paris Observatory library, virtual exhibitions showcase the institution’s astronomers, projects and collections.
Discover them on the Observatoire digital library.
Cosmos in Video: a resource website organized by educational level
This portal brings together content hosted by professional astronomers on a wide range of themes. For each grade level, the videos - dated and timed - are classified by major theme: Sun, Sun-Earth-Moon Relations, Solar System, Stars, Galaxies, Cosmology, Light, Instruments and Space Exploration, History of Astronomy...
Online resources for teachers
This portal brings together online resources produced by the Teaching Training Unit at Paris Observatory, thanks to the Teaching and Information Technologies Unit. The resources are classified according to level, format and volume/duration. Some of them are the course materials for the "Lumières sur l’Univers" online training course (7 courses).
In 2017, the Paris Observatory celebrated its 350th anniversary. The 350ans.obspm.fr/en website traces this exceptional history, from its origins to its current research. Discover the Paris, Meudon and Nançay sites, the daily life of the astronomers, their tools, and the major themes covered.
This websitecomplements the travelling exhibition of the same name, and sheds fascinating light on 18 key astrophysics research themes.
The Observatoire de Paris, at its Meudon site, has been making daily observations of the Sun’s surface for over a hundred years. The result is a unique collection of over one hundred thousand images, spread over ten cycles of solar activity. The INSU National Observation Service website displays daily images of the Sun and offers a wide range of educational resources on solar physics.
The page with the latest images of the Sun
In the great hall on the second floor of the Paris Observatory building - built between 1667 and 1671 from plans by architect Claude Perrault - stands one of the wonders of the Observatory, the great meridian line. Conceived and sketched by Jean-Dominique Cassini (1625-1712) shortly after his arrival at the Paris Observatory in 1669, it was to be the first line of a monumental sundial.
This high-precision astronomical instrument was designed to answer a then-controversial question: Does the Earth’s tilt vary?
This dedicated portal was created by our researchers specializing in celestial mechanics.
[Access the portal → https://vo.imcce.fr/meridienne/index.php]
Université PSL invites you to explore the work of its researchers across all fields of knowledge—hard sciences, humanities, arts, and literature—through a unique, curious, and original podcast!
Featuring regular contributions from our researchers.
[Listen here → https://psl.eu/actualites/tangram-le-podcast-de-luniversite-psl]
