French legal time : Sun in Paris : Sunrise 05:35 Sunset 18:16 > Other place
Home > Current events > Current research > News from the labs > 2008
The prize of the engineers 2008 in category Sciences allotted by the National council of the engineers and scientists of France , Usine Nouvelle (...)
January 1, 2009, at 1 hour in the morning, it will be necessary to delay watches by just a second. Very exceptionally, the minute between (...)
New constraints on galaxy formation scenarios have been established by a team of the Paris Observatory from a study of the fraction of Oxygen in (...)
The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet-sized object so exotic that astronomers are unsure whether to call it a planet. The object, named (...)
A French-Brazilian team showed that a large fraction of galaxies thought to be weakly active could in fact be ionized by an elderly stellar (...)
The Ulysses spacecraft, which is celebrating its 18 years in space, has given unexpected results on the solar wind. The electron density and (...)
The European spaceship ATV (Automatic Transfer Vehicle) finished its very first mission while disintegrating in the atmosphere. An (...)
An international team of scientists including astronomers from the European Space Agency (ESTEC, Netherlands), MIT (Cambridge, USA) and the (...)
The abundance of oxygen on the Sun has been, in the past 40 years, controversial, with balancing results between ahigh’’ orlow’’ value. A team (...)
By measuring the magnetic field of solar twins, an international team of scientists including astronomers from Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et (...)
The last results from the french satellite CoRoT, in orbit for more than 550 days, have been presented at various scientific conferences held (...)
The origin and importance of radial mixing of stars in the galactic thin disk are uncertain. At the sun galactocentric radius, stars move (...)
According to two astrophysicists from Paris Observatory, the fate of stars that venture too close to massive black holes could be even more (...)
Usually, the tidal effects applied by the parent planet on their natural satellites are strong enough to slow down their spin velocities and (...)
After almost one year and a half of observing, the harvest is rich for CoRoT. The satellite has now discovered 5 new exoplanets, and (...)
Primordial gravitational waves are a robust prediction of inflation as they are produced by the same mechanism that generated the primordial (...)
A team led by researchers from Paris Observatory found evidences for temperature vertical oscillations in the stratosphere of Saturn. Using the (...)
Researchers from the European network JETSET, including astronomers from Paris Observatory, have just studied the jets produced by young stars (...)
An international team, led by J. I. González Hernández from Paris Observatory, has redetermined the lithium abundance in the most metal-poor (...)
A team from Observatoire de Paris proposes a novel instrumental concept that could simplify future space experiments that aim at directly (...)
An international team of cosmologists, led by a researcher from Paris Observatory, has improved the theoretical pertinence of the Poincaré (...)