No, this isn’t proof of a visit from aliens ! The Paris Observatory logo was drawn by the talented students at LIRA, at the foot of the Solar Tower, on the Meudon campus :)
It’s a nod to the Tour de France helicopters that fly over the area every summer and would see the campus from the air.
Fancy recreating this ‘crop circle’ in your garden ? You’ll need : two circles 60 cm in diameter, three arcs with radii of 3, 4 and 6 metres, and a central axis.
The logo combines the initials O and P in the form of spirals, evoking both a galaxy and the trajectory of a satellite orbiting a celestial body.
