Communiqués de presse de 2017
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First detection of a ring arund a dwarf planet
Working within the framework of a coordinated observational campaign on a European scale, a team of scientists co-directed by Bruno Sicardy, professor at...
Is the organic matter in comets older than the solar system?
The huge quantity of organic matter discovered in the nucleus of comet “Tchouri”by the Rosetta probe was probably not created during the formation of the...
First discovery of an exoplanet by SPHERE
The astronomical instrument SPHERE, installed since 2014 on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, has made its...
350 years of frontier-less astronomy: the international colloquium
To mark the 350th birthday of the Paris Observatory and the establishment of the meridian on June 21st 1667 – the Summer solsltice- a two day international...
A new approach to forecasting solar flares?
The emerging discipline of space meteorology aims to reliably predict solar flares so that we may better guard against their effects. Using 3D numerical...
The magnetic poles of Uranus found again
The detection on Uranus of new polar aurorae, among the most intense ever observed, furnishes new information about the unusual and poorly understood...