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CARIOQA
CARIOQA : Cold Atom Rubidium Interferometer in Orbit for Quantum Accelerometry
QAFCA
KEPLER was launched on March 6, 2009. It is composed of a 1.4m diameter mirror and 42 CCDs. Its main goal is to detect exoplanets the size of Earth or smaller, including exoplanets in the habitable zone, i.e. on the surface of which water can...
AstroMeso / AstroGeo
According to Milankovitch’s theory (1941), the large climatic changes of the past are due to the variations of the Earth’s orbit and its axis of rotation, resulting from the gravitational attraction of the other planets and the Moon.
MesoPSL
MesoPSL is the parallel computing center of PSL, member of the equip@meso project. It federates the users in intensive calculus within the large establishments of PSL (ENS, Observatory of Paris, Chemistry Paris, ESPCI, Paris Dauphine University…)...
Nouvelle traduction : JUICE
Studying Jupiter and three of its moons is the mission of the European JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) satellite, which successfully lifted off from the Guiana Space Center on April 14, 2023 on an Ariane 5 launcher. The data collected will...
BIRDY
The study of small bodies of the solar system (asteroids, comets, satellites) is fundamental both for our understanding of the formation of the solar system and for characterising the risk of a near-Earth object impacting the Earth.
DISHAS
Astral sciences were cultivated, since antiquity, in a great variety of historical contexts wherein different types of transmission and interaction were often established. Thus, research into the development of these sciences represents a vast...
ALFA
ALFA is an ERC-funded research project, based at SYRTE (UMR 8630) at PSL-Observatoire de Paris, and dedicated to the study of Alphonsine astronomy, which flourished in Europe from the second half of the 13th century to the middle of the 16th century.
RAPAS (Professional Amateur Network for Scientific Alerts)
The RAPAS project aims to set up a network of amateur observers to respond to various alerts from ground or space programs.
Gaia
A space astrometry mission and cornerstone of the ESA (European Space Agency), the Gaia Universe Surveyor aims to provide a census and three-dimensional kinematic mapping of our galaxy, and beyond.
