2008
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The Price of the Engineers 2008 rewards the group for microwave studies of LERMA
The prize of the engineers 2008 in category Sciences allotted by the National council of the engineers and scientists of France , Usine Nouvelle and Industry...
An extra second in 2008
January 1, 2009, at 1 hour in the morning, it will be necessary to delay watches by just a second. Very exceptionally, the minute between midnight 59...
No galaxy is an island
New constraints on galaxy formation scenarios have been established by a team of the Paris Observatory from a study of the fraction of Oxygen in the gaseous...
Planet or "failed star"? CoRoT finds a unique object
The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet-sized object so exotic that astronomers are unsure whether to call it a planet. The object, named CoRoT-Exo-3b,...
Retired galaxies behaving like active galaxies
A French-Brazilian team showed that a large fraction of galaxies thought to be weakly active could in fact be ionized by an elderly stellar population. This...
An unexpected solar wind seen by Ulysses
The Ulysses spacecraft, which is celebrating its 18 years in space, has given unexpected results on the solar wind. The electron density and temperature of...
Successful atmospheric re-entry for the ATV Jules Verne
The European spaceship ATV (Automatic Transfer Vehicle) finished its very first mission while disintegrating in the atmosphere. An international team...
Meteorites look different from Near-Earth Asteroids
An international team of scientists including astronomers from the European Space Agency (ESTEC, Netherlands), MIT (Cambridge, USA) and the Paris Observatory...
A breath of oxygen for the Sun
The abundance of oxygen on the Sun has been, in the past 40 years, controversial, with balancing results between ahigh'' orlow’’ value. A team of...
Solar-stellar connection: a new light on the solar magnetic mystery
By measuring the magnetic field of solar twins, an international team of scientists including astronomers from Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et...