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Published on 1 December 2006

Do planets form around small stars?

More than 200 exoplanets have now been detected around stars in the solar neighborhood, most of them through the measurement of tiny perturbations in the...
Published on 1 December 2006

The Be stars: fast rotators since their birth!

Among hot stars, certain B stars are known as fast rotators and for their specific characteristic of being surrounded by an anisotropic gaseous envelope....
Published on 1 November 2006

A giant planet embedded in the magnetosphere of its star

An international team of researchers, of which two astronomers from LESIA (Paris Observatory, CNRS, University of Paris 6 and 7), have just discovered a...
Published on 1 November 2006

The Milky Way’s neighbouring galaxies have a different history

Do the dwarf satellite galaxies that surround our Milky Way share the same chemical composition as the Milky Way itself ? Are they part of the early building...
Published on 1 November 2006

Chlorophyll and ozone in the Earthshine

When the space missions will be able to detect planets similar to the Earth, it will be important to know which are the indices of the presence of life on...
Published on 1 October 2006

A New Class of Compact H II regions in the Magellanic Clouds

A study carried out at the Paris Observatory shows the presence of a new class of compact H II regions, dubbed Low-excitation Blobs (LEBs), in the...
Published on 1 October 2006

October 25-26, 2006: Launching of STEREO mission

The STEREO project relies on the international collaboration between several laboratories (including the LESIA, from Paris Observatory). Its principal...
Published on 1 October 2006

Smoking gun evidence of a head-on collision for Andromeda

The structure of the disk of Andromeda (or Messier 31), the largest spiral galaxy in the Local Group, has always been a puzzle: the map of interstellar...
Published on 1 October 2006

Pristine abundances of C, N, and... mixing issues in the stellar interiors

A fundamental tool to explore the formation history of our Galaxy is to observe its oldest stars. Since the interstellar gas from which stars are formed is...
Published on 1 October 2006

First detection of small Kuiper objects by stellar occultations

A great number of objects of our solar system still remain to be discovered in the disc of Kuiper, beyond the orbit of Neptune. An international team,...