Communiqués de presse de 2018
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...