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- Astrophysicist Françoise Combes receives the 2020 Gold Medal from CNRS 10/09/2020
- Mars2020: a successful launch! 30/07/2020
- Aerographite: a promising material for photonic sails 30/07/2020
- Major contribution of Paris Observatory to SuperCam on Mars2020 30/07/2020
- Call for rights holders 2020 27/07/2020
- Solar Orbiter’s first views of the Sun 23/07/2020
- Discovery of an extrasolar system with two strongly interacting planets 02/07/2020
- The CNRS 2020 Innovation Medal 26/06/2020
- A new camera to track traces of life on Mars 22/06/2020
- The solar eclipse of June 21, 2020 19/06/2020
- Nanosatellites also make it possible to do science 18/06/2020
- Titan is moving away from Saturn 100 times faster than expected 09/06/2020
- Link established with emerging microbial activity on the primitive Earth 02/06/2020
- Presentation of the Charles Defforey Foundation Scientific Grand Prize 26/05/2020
- Two CNRS Crystal Medal winners 25/05/2020
- Signs of a planet forming around the star AB Aurigae 20/05/2020
- Waltzing with the black hole at the center of our galaxy 15/05/2020
- The ELT will be the largest telescope ever built... 05/05/2020
- General relativity confirmed using Nançay’s radiotelescope 04/05/2020
- Covid - 19: the gesture of solidarity with astrophysicists 20/04/2020
- Listen to our scientists on the Ciel & Espace podcasts. 17/04/2020
- ESO Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole 16/04/2020
- BepiColombo flies over the Earth 10/04/2020
- A breakthrough in the formation of exo-Earth atmospheres 06/04/2020
- ERC 2020 grants: winning project at the Paris Observatory 31/03/2020
- COVID-19: Closure of Observatoire de Paris - PSL 13/03/2020
- LOFAR pioneers new way to study exoplanet environments 17/02/2020
- The surface of the Sun is magnetized 07/02/2020
- The 2019 Academy of Sciences History of Science Laureat 16/12/2019
- The first detection of very high energy gamma ray bursts 26/11/2019
- Do not miss Mercury on November 11, 2019 06/11/2019
- A new constraint on the mass of "graviton" 24/10/2019
- Michel Mayor et Didier Queloz, 2019 physics Nobel prize winners 11/10/2019
- The Cosmic Jellyfish in Norma seen by ALMA 30/09/2019
- The Cosmic Snake reveals huge molecular clouds 16/09/2019
- Radio emission from a pulsar’s magnetic pole revealed by general relativity 06/09/2019
- Call to the interested parties: digitization of works and its transmission 26/07/2019
- Friday, July 12, 2019: Observe the Moon! 18/07/2019
- The solar eclipse of 1919 reappears in the archives of the Observatoire de Paris! 29/05/2019
- Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth’s Oceans 23/05/2019
- Gaia has discovered 3 new asteroids 14/05/2019
- Spring on Pluto: an analysis over 30 years 10/05/2019
- Supersonic winds in Titan’s upper atmosphere 15/04/2019
- EU funded grant at Observatoire de Paris 29/03/2019
- The Large Magellanic Cloud is 1,53 billion km away 18/03/2019
- Université PSL opens a satellite office in Australia 28/02/2019
- The echo of the stellar bar formation in our Galaxy captured by Gaia 24/02/2019
- Guy Perrin, winner of the 2019 award of the journal « La Recherche » 19/02/2019
- Final Agreements Signed for CTA’s Southern Hemisphere Site in Chile 21/12/2018
- Comet Wirtanen in the December 2018 sky 12/12/2018
- When GALILEO confirms Einstein’s predictions 04/12/2018
- Cosmic radiation under world-wide surveillance 03/12/2018
- ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain 07/11/2018
- Most Detailed Observations of Material Orbiting close to a Black Hole 02/11/2018
- Confirmed, a universal law opens perspectives for exoplanets 29/10/2018
- Signature of a Memorandum of Collaboration between ESA and PSL 23/10/2018
- Milky Way churned up by galactic fender bender 21/09/2018
- Energetic lightshow at Saturn’s north pole 30/08/2018
- Parker Solar Probe: French research takes off towards the Sun 13/08/2018
- Black hole and general relativity: confirmation by Gravity 31/07/2018
- French consortium joins SKA organization 31/07/2018
- The longest lunar eclipse of the century 31/07/2018
- The perihelic opposition of Mars 31/07/2018
- Inauguration of PSL’s space technological complex 13/07/2018
- A unique data set for ten solar cycles 13/07/2018
- SPHERE discovers its first protoplanet 12/07/2018
- AU Microscopii and its mysterious waves… 21/06/2018
- A New Cosmological Ruler to track Dark Energy 22/05/2018
- Guillaume Voisin, awarded the IAU 2017 prize for the best thesis 14/05/2018
- 350 years of astrometry at the Paris Observatory 07/05/2018
- Gaia opens the way to the Milky Way in 3D and in colour 04/05/2018
- Calibration campaign for SuperCam - Mars 17/04/2018
- Solar tornadoes are not tornadoes ! 10/04/2018
- Close monitoring of the path of the Chinese space station 30/03/2018
- ESA’s green light for the ARIEL mission 23/03/2018
- Edmée Chandon, the first French woman astronomer 09/03/2018
- Martin Pertenaïs awarded the 2018 MERAC prize 27/02/2018
- The formation of the Andromeda galaxy finally elucidated 14/02/2018
- Pierre Kervella awarded the 2017 "La Recherche" Prize 02/02/2018
- January 31st 2018: 3 facettes for one full Moon 29/01/2018
- Does quantum entanglement influence the universality of free fall? 24/01/2018
- "L’astronomie se la raconte" : exhibition available for loan 22/01/2018
- Hello Earth? PicSat calling… 15/01/2018
- An international astronomical dictionary for sign language 12/01/2018
- Launch of a French nanosatellite to solve the Beta Pictoris mysteries 11/01/2018
- The slow rotation of the red supergiant Betelgeuse 09/01/2018
- Paris Observatory wishes you a Happy New Year 29/12/2017
- A series of super Moons ! 01/12/2017
- NASA Silver Achievement Medal awarded to Antonella Barucci 30/11/2017
- Nicolas Biver and Denis Savoie awarded by the Academy of Sciences Arago medal 24/11/2017
- Françoise Combes receives the Janssen Prize 24/11/2017
- The Paris Observatory: another kind of School 24/11/2017
- The URSI-France 2018 Workshop 23/11/2017
- MOSAIC for the ELT: A Gigantic Step into the Deep Universe 20/10/2017
- Alain Fuchs elected president of Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL) 16/10/2017
- October 12th 2017, the asteroïd 2012 TC4 will cross the Earth’s orbit 12/10/2017
- Focus on 40 years of observation with the Nançay decameter array 04/10/2017
- CTA Releases its Updated Science Case 27/09/2017
- September 15th 2017 | End of the Cassini mission 13/09/2017
- Is the organic matter in comets older than the solar system? 13/09/2017
- Large reservoirs of cold molecular gas at high-redshift 03/09/2017
- First discovery of an exoplanet by SPHERE 07/07/2017
- Radio shows from Jupiter seen by Juno 02/06/2017
- 350 years of frontier-less astronomy: the international colloquium 29/05/2017
- June 17th 2017: The astronomers go to another dome 29/05/2017
- April 19th 2017: surprise visit of a large asteroid! 20/04/2017
- The magnetic poles of Uranus found again 20/04/2017
- The collapse of a cliff reveals the original composition of comet 67P 30/03/2017
- Signature of a basic agreement for Franco-Australian cooperation 16/03/2017
- In homage to Michel Combes (1939-2017) 16/03/2017
- Beyond the appearances: The anatomy of the Orion Jedi revealed by radio-astronomy 16/03/2017
- March 7th ... 1667: acquisition of land for the Observatory 07/03/2017
- The 350th anniversary site 02/03/2017
- Gaia, a siren … for solar system objects 01/02/2017
- The SuperCam project has successfully passed its CDR and begins integration 27/01/2017
- Validation of the radio frequency set for the PicSat project 13/01/2017
- Quantum technologies challenged by microgravity 05/01/2017
- Proxima bound to Alpha Centauri 22/12/2016
- A definitive proof for the hierarchical model of galaxy formation 13/12/2016
- Contest "Instant scientist with the Cassini probe" 12/12/2016
- 340 years ago, Rømer showed that light has a finite speed 12/12/2016
- Nearby ageing star previews the future of Solar system planets 08/12/2016
- New: Astronomical Calendar 2017 02/12/2016
- Study of the water ice on Rosetta’s comet 21/11/2016
- Studies of the ice on Rosetta’s comet 21/11/2016
- ESO’s SPHERE instrument yields high resolution images of protoplanetary discs 17/11/2016
- November 14th 2016: a super Moon 16/11/2016
- French researchers push forward radio image quality in view of the SKA telescope 10/11/2016
- Meet our sky researchers 09/11/2016
- The Stellar Seismic Indices (SSI) data base 08/11/2016
- Discovery of a very old binary star 07/11/2016
- An inertial sensor built by the SYRTE unveils a curious quantum dance 07/11/2016
- The Paris Observatory: partner of the Space Caravan in Morocco 04/11/2016
- The Future of Alpha Centauri A rare opportunity for planet hunting in Alpha Centauri A predicted for 2028 21/10/2016
- CoRoT Legacy day September 30th Paris Observatory 18/10/2016
- September 30th | Rosetta: follow its landing on the comet in real time 28/09/2016
- Novae! lithium factories 27/09/2016
- The 170 years of the discovery of Neptune 23/09/2016
- An annular eclipse of the Sun for September 2016 21/09/2016
- A famished black hole masks out a bright galaxy 16/09/2016
- Publication of final data from the CoRoT 16/09/2016
- Dimanche 18 sept | Portes ouvertes à la station de radioastronomie de Nançay 14/09/2016
- The OSIRIS-REx mission launched successfully! 13/09/2016
- The internal structure of the dwarf planet Ceres revealed 08/09/2016
- Zooming into the skin of the Orion hunter 06/09/2016
- Optical fiber: a revolution for the comparison of atomic clocks 19/08/2016
- MeerKAT : first Light image 25/07/2016
- The THEMIS telescope reveals the fine structure of the magnetic field at the solar surface outside of active regions 08/07/2016
- Involvements of the Paris Observatory in Juno mission 04/07/2016
- PSL: The fashion collection of the EnsAD photographed at the Paris Observatory 01/07/2016
- An unexpected excess of hot Jupiters within a star cluster 28/06/2016
- GRAVITY probing the physics of black holes 28/06/2016
- Inauguration of the Saint-Véran "Maison du Soleil" 14/06/2016
- Black Hole Fed by Cold Intergalactic Deluge 08/06/2016
- Official launching of FRIPON, a French camera network to watch the sky and track meteorites 31/05/2016
- Star Formation and Feedback: A Molecular Outflow–Prestellar Core Interaction in L1689N 07/05/2016
- Details about the transit of Mercury ..... 20/04/2016
- Upcoming event visible in France: the solar transit of Mercury 14/04/2016
- New: a benchmark site for comets 13/04/2016
- April 4th 2016 | Start of the second session of the MOOC "Weighing the Universe" 25/03/2016
- MOSAIC, the Multi-Object Spectrograph of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) 18/03/2016
- Searching for Planet 9 24/02/2016
- Death of Jean-Louis Steinberg, astronomer at the Paris Observatory 05/02/2016
- Just 30 years ago took place the unique overview of Uranus ... 04/02/2016
- The 2015 Treasures of the Library of the Paris Observatory 02/02/2016
- First critical edition of the work of Copernicus 19/01/2016
- First Cherenkov light "Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope" 19/01/2016
- Water-ice provides clues to comet’s evolution 14/01/2016
- GRAVITY, first light of future machine to study black holes 13/01/2016
- 2015 Award of the Astronomical Society of France 11/12/2015
- The Paris Observatory, partner to the First Light exhibition 07/12/2015
- Launch of LISA Pathfinder: gravitational waves hunt intensifies 01/12/2015
- Inauguration at the Paris Observatory of the « Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope » 30/11/2015
- First image of the visible photosphere of a star other than the Sun 24/11/2015
- 2 000 exoplanets registered… 24/11/2015
- Old observations in a new light 23/11/2015
- The jet from a black hole drives multiple winds in a nearby galaxy 18/11/2015
- The Paris Observatory, a scientific partner play 13/11/2015
- Researchers find ethyl alcohol and sugar in a comet! 23/10/2015
- New: Astronomical Calendar 2016 20/10/2015
- Cycle 1915-2015: the odyssey of space-time 20/10/2015
- GAIA: A year of science observations 20/10/2015
- Comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko is a binary object 19/10/2015
- First discovery of a magnetic delta Scuti star 16/10/2015
- The NGC 4013 tale --- a new spiral from a major merger 09/10/2015
- The September 28th total eclipse of the Moon: up to scratch 08/10/2015
- Mysterious Ripples Found Racing Through Planet-forming Disc 08/10/2015
- First direct observation of the dust ring of NGC 1068 07/10/2015
- On line opening of the Paris Observatory’s first MOOC 25/09/2015
- Rosetta reveals comet’s water-ice cycle 24/09/2015
- September 28th 2015 | A spectacular total eclipse of the Moon 23/09/2015
- Construction of the MICADO camera for the E-ELT officially starts 23/09/2015
- Shipped in Chile, GRAVITY was successfully tested 18/09/2015
- The law of magnetic helicity in the process of confirmation 15/09/2015
- June 27, 2015 | Exhibition "Comets" at the Museum of Air and Space 24/08/2015
- Is the black hole in NGC 1277 really obese? 21/08/2015
- Stop on the leap second 03/08/2015
- Inauguration of the GATE platform in Meudon 28/07/2015
- An exoplanet in transit, from visible to X-rays: Venus as a probe 25/06/2015
- New light on the dark ages of the Universe 19/06/2015
- A leap second during the night of June 30th to July 1st 2015 19/06/2015
- The Observatoire de Paris launches its first MOOC 15/06/2015
- Science Grand Prix 2015 of the Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation 01/06/2015
- The memory of Jean-François Denisse honored by his peers 26/05/2015
- The large Nançay radiotelescope is 50 years old 22/05/2015
- 30 to 31 May | The Paris Observatory partner of "Mysterious Lights" 22/05/2015
- Astronomers witnessed a critical step in the formation of stars 22/05/2015
- Space Girls Space Women 05/05/2015
- The galactic clock caught out 04/05/2015
- Ubiquity of interplanetary nanodust particles from Cassini observations 11/04/2015
- Headway in mapping extragalactic interstellar organic matter 10/04/2015
- two vice-presidents re-appointed 02/04/2015
- March 29, 2015: transition to summer time 24/03/2015
- Reliving the partial eclipse replay 23/03/2015
- Mars: The Planet that Lost an Ocean’s Worth of Water 09/03/2015
- Tchouri under the eye of Rosetta 04/03/2015
- Rosetta: ground level images of the comet 04/03/2015
- GAIA discovers diffuse band (DIB) absorptions and probe the interstellar medium 03/02/2015
- Claude Catala re-elected as head of the Paris Observatory 02/02/2015
- Best wishes for 2015 07/01/2015
- 2015 International Year of the Light in France 07/01/2015
- December 18th | Françoise Combes inaugural lecture, Professor at the College de France 15/12/2014
- The Paris Observatory winner of the 2014 Cap’Com prize 15/12/2014
- Planck: new revelations on dark matter and relic neutrinos 04/12/2014
- The Paris Observatory awards its Doctor Honoris Causa for 2014 27/11/2014
- The Philae has landed, with a bounce and a success of historic proportions! 17/11/2014
- VIRTIS detects water and carbon dioxide in comet’s coma 07/11/2014
- Ionized carbon in absorption and emission to better trace the interstellar diffuse gas 26/10/2014
- The formation of large scale stellar jets finally elucidated 17/10/2014
- Mimas, one of Saturn’s icy moons, might be hiding an ocean or a highly flattened core 17/10/2014
- MOONS, the project for a new spectrograph for the VLT 01/10/2014
- Everything you ever wanted to know about venusian research – a new site 29/09/2014
- Construction of a next generation radiotelescope starts at Nançay 22/09/2014
- Light echoes from a Cepheid star yield its distance 15/09/2014
- The abundance of lithium measured for the first time beyond our galaxy 11/09/2014
- Neutrinos 29/08/2014
- Gaia starts its scientific observations 27/08/2014
- A temperature of -70°C on comet 67P/CG 25/08/2014
- Rosetta : successful rendez-vous with comet 67P/CG ! 25/08/2014
- A new model to describe the structure of galaxies 20/08/2014
- A new theory for the Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) 09/08/2014
- New living quarters for the Saint-Véran Observatory 28/07/2014
- Virtual Observatory and Planets 22/07/2014
- On board Rosetta the MIRO instrument has started to probe comet 67 P/CG 21/07/2014
- HESS-II, an observatory for very high energies, proves its worth 07/07/2014
- The CoRoT satellite bows out 24/06/2014
- First light from SPHERE, an exoplanet imager 12/06/2014
- ROSETTA - First images of the comet 67 P 16/05/2014
- Herschel discovers mature galaxies in the young Universe 29/04/2014
- An unprecedented operation of regional scientific culture 25/04/2014
- The phase of lithium production in stars identified at last 15/04/2014
- The future of the Sun observed through the nearest old star 10/04/2014
- Progress in understanding solar eruptions 01/04/2014
- The surprise discovery of rings around a small body within the Solar System 27/03/2014
- CNRS medallists, 2014 20/03/2014
- MESSENGER in orbit around Mercury : new constraints for gravitation theories 28/02/2014
- PLATO space telescope mission to hunt out planetary systems similar to our own 20/02/2014
- Rosetta target’s mission 12/02/2014
- Rosetta : Rosetta’s instruments 11/02/2014
- Comets 11/02/2014
- Rosetta: The target 67/P 11/02/2014
- GAIA first pictures 10/02/2014
- A new view of the main asteroid belt 30/01/2014
- Water vapour discovered around asteroid Ceres 23/01/2014
- Wake up Rosetta ! 20/01/2014
- Rosetta and Paris’ Observatory 20/01/2014
- Gaia has arrived! 15/01/2014
- Star clusters: new places to search for exoplanets 15/01/2014
- A second cometary ring in the surprising exoplanetary system of Fomalhaut 08/01/2014
- Best Wishes 2014 ! 06/01/2014
- La recherche française : acteur majeur du satellite Gaia 19/12/2013
- FIRST : steps towards direct imagery of exoplanetary systems 17/12/2013
- Successful launch for Gaia ! 12/12/2013
- The universal nature of stellar granulation unveiled 09/12/2013
- The fate of comet ISON 29/11/2013
- ISON: the comet of the century? 15/11/2013
- The most evolved red giants vibrate like the Sun 15/11/2013
- Two blockbuster theses involving a compact gravimeter project 14/11/2013
- The Eclipse: an opportunity to increase science awareness in Africa 13/11/2013
- SPIRou : involvement of the Ile-de-France Region 13/11/2013
- Two exhibitions at the Paris Observatory 13/11/2013
- One Thousand and One Planets 22/10/2013
- EuroVenus: a pan-European Venus research initiative is launched. 21/10/2013
- ALMA discovers an outflow of molecular gas in a nearby spiral galaxy 16/10/2013
- The central black hole of our galaxy is the seat of a strong magnetic field 03/09/2013
- Optical lattice clocks: towards a new definition of the second? 17/07/2013
- Jean Schneider, record keeper of the extrasolar planets 29/06/2013
- Mission accomplie pour le satellite CoRoT 28/06/2013
- Exhibition "Discover New Worlds. The space mission CoRoT" 25/06/2013
- Two prizes for French astrophysics 12/06/2013
- Big Computation of Universe : the movie 29/05/2013
- Herschel zooms into the vicinity of black hole at the heart of our Galaxy 28/05/2013
- Four powerful salvos from the Sun 16/05/2013
- Andromeda’s satellite galaxies: the relic of a major merger? 07/05/2013
- Experimental proof of major influence of micron-sized dust particles on the interstellar gas 05/05/2013
- Water in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere comes from SL9 comet 23/04/2013
- European prizes : awarded to two female resarchers from Observatoire de Paris 08/04/2013
- Comète de mars 2013 : les images et vidéos 04/04/2013
- Discovery of a giant radio galaxy 29/03/2013
- Planck: Ever closer to the Big Bang 25/03/2013
- Black holes could form faster than we think 20/03/2013
- L1 Paris Sciences et Lettres : Live report from the domes… 12/03/2013
- Extreme black holes : new tracers of the accelerated expansion of the universe 08/03/2013
- The birth of a convective core in a young star modifies its magnetic field 06/03/2013
- A naked-eye comet invites itself to the March sky, 2013 04/03/2013
- Start for the construction of a Cerenkov telescope at Meudon 28/02/2013
- An asteroid belt around a recyled pulsar ? 25/02/2013
- Delivery of instruments for the BepiColombo mission 23/02/2013
- New asteroid, 2012 DA14, skirts the Earth 21/02/2013
- Chameleon pulsar takes astronomers by surprise 19/02/2013
- Launch of a charter for gender parity in the academic world 03/02/2013
- Taking the temperature of the Universe 28/01/2013
- A galactic carousel around the Andromeda galaxy 14/01/2013
- The red giant cores contract and spin down 01/12/2012
