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Published on 30 November 2018

New balance to weigh super-massive black holes

Scientists have for the first time been able to study the properties of gas clouds moving rapidly extremely close to a super massive black hole, which has...
Published on 27 November 2018

Solution of the mystery of the origin of massive circumstellar gas discs

Why do massive gas discs survive in planetary systems for tens of millions of years, well after the formation of the planets? And even though the models of...
Published on 20 November 2018

The Paris Observatory involved in the release of a beautiful introductory book on astronomy

The publisher "Éditions de Monza" is associating itself with the Paris Observatory for the publication in November 2018 of a very beautiful reference...
Published on 19 November 2018

The «agitated» dynamics of the miniature rings in the Solar System

Recently discovered around a number of small bodies in the solar system, the two mini-rings have a completely original dynamics. Published in a letter to the...
Published on 9 November 2018

A science fair under the sign of the BepiColombo space mission

On October 19th 2018, the international space mission BepiColombo will be launched from Kourou towards Mercury. Scientists at the Paris Observatory have...
Published on 4 October 2018

Cassini Grand Finale : a dive into the very heart of Saturn’s radio aurorae

Just one year after the end of the Cassini mission, the data harvested during the « Grand Finale » is starting to yield its first results. In a paper...
Published on 13 August 2018

Parker Solar Probe: French research takes off towards the Sun

Parker Solar Probe deviendra bientôt l’engin spatial à s’être le plus approché du Soleil, en se plaçant à un peu plus de 6 millions de kilomètres de la...
Published on 31 July 2018

Black hole and general relativity: confirmation by Gravity

L’instrument Gravity confirme des prédictions de la relativité générale aux abords du trou noir super-massif au centre de la Galaxie. Ce résultat a été...
Published on 17 July 2018

Planck: final data from the mission lends strong support to the standard cosmological model

In 2013, ESA’s Planck mission unveiled a new image of the cosmos: an all-sky survey of the microwave radiation produced at the beginning of the Universe....
Published on 6 July 2018

CPEM 2018 - Precision Electromagnetic Measurement in Paris

The Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE), in collaboration with the Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the Observatoire de...