Communiqués de presse de 2014
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Planck: new revelations on dark matter and relic neutrinos
The Planck collaboration, which notably includes the CNRS, CEA, CNES and several French universities, has disclosed, at a conference in Ferrara, Italy, the...
The formation of large scale stellar jets finally elucidated
Thanks to a patented experimental device and to large scale numerical simulation, scientists have managed to explain how the jets emitted by young stars are...
Mimas, one of Saturn’s icy moons, might be hiding an ocean or a highly flattened core
Using data obtained by the Cassini orbiter, an international team, made up of scientists from the Paris Observatory, from the Pierre and Marie University at...
Neutrinos
For the first time in the history of our star, it has been possible to measure directly the energy it produces at the moment when it is produced. In an...
New living quarters for the Saint-Véran Observatory
The Saint-Véran (Hautes-Alpes) municipality, together with the Astroqueyras association and with the scientific support of the Paris Observatory, will, on...
An unprecedented operation of regional scientific culture
Under the leadership of the Observatoire de Paris, together with the Région Île-de-France, astrophysicists of the Île-de-France are organizing a completely...
The future of the Sun observed through the nearest old star
A dust disk was directly imaged for the first time around the nearest old star, L2 Puppis. This result, obtained by an international team led by an...
The surprise discovery of rings around a small body within the Solar System
Chariklo, a small solar system body, has become a part of the history of astronomy. An international team of scientists, which includes eleven scientists...
PLATO space telescope mission to hunt out planetary systems similar to our own
ESA’s Science Programmes Committee has selected the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillation of stars mission (PLATO) designed to study the formation and evolution...
A new view of the main asteroid belt
Two scientists, including an astronomer at the Paris Observatory, at the Institute for celestial mechanics and ephemeris calculations (Institut de mécanique...