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Published on 4 December 2014

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...
Published on 17 October 2014

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...
Published on 17 October 2014

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...
Published on 29 August 2014

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...
Published on 28 July 2014

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...
Published on 25 April 2014

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...
Published on 10 April 2014

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...
Published on 27 March 2014

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...
Published on 20 February 2014

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...
Published on 30 January 2014

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...