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Observatoire de Paris - PSL, partner of a comic book collection published by Glénat.

4 octobre 2024

The Paris Observatory - PSL is a partner of a new comic book collection dedicated to the Solar System. After the first two volumes released in bookstores at the end of March 2024, the 3rd volume dedicated to Saturn has been published since October 2, 2024.

The first two volumes, released at the end of March 2024, are devoted to Mars and the gas giant Jupiter.

A gauche : Tome 1, "Mars, la planète rouge" A droite :Tome 2, "Jupiter – Le berger des astéroïdes"
À gauche : Tome 1, "Mars, la planète rouge" - À droite :Tome 2, "Jupiter – Le berger des astéroïdes".
Crédit : Glénat

The exploratory mission continues with a third volume, released on October 2, 2024, dedicated to “Saturn, the guardian of the rings”.

Collection Glénat, tome 3, "Saturne, le gardien des anneaux" sorti en librairie le 2 octobre 2024.
Crédit : Glénat

Five more, devoted to Uranus, Neptune, Venus, Mercury and the Sun will follow by 2027.

Eventually, eight volumes will make up the whole of this new collection devoted exclusively to the Solar System. Each issue is a voyage of initiation to discover a planet, its special features, its unique place in the solar system and its astonishing secrets.

In this collection, scripted by Bruno Lecigne, we follow a team of astronauts and Earth scientists who set off to circumnavigate the Solar System and study the different planets. As such a journey is impossible in the real world, the authors have created an extraterrestrial character, the pilot of a ship with unrivalled technology, who will transport the explorers.

Aside from this purely narrative license, the entire collection has been supervised by expert scientists at Observatoire de Paris - PSL, to offer an exciting introduction to our planetary environment.

A dossier designed and written by astrophysicists also accompanies each album, completing what the comics could not detail.

Already published :

Tome 1, “Mars, la planète rouge”, Glénat, 64 p., 15,50 € ;
Tome 2, “Jupiter - Le berger des astéroïdes”, Glénat, 64 p., 15,50 € ;
Tome 3, “Saturne, le gardien des anneaux”, Glénat, 64 p., 15,50 €.