The fifth edition of the international symposium on Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays, UHECR2018, will be held in Paris from 8 to 12 October, 2018 from 1 PM to 1 PM. This UHECR workshop will cover recent results from UHECR observations and theoretical developments as well as future plans. The symposium will focus on the highest energy cosmic rays as well […]
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Not long after the Big Bang, the first generations of stars began altering the chemical make-up of primitive galaxies, slowly enriching the interstellar medium with basic elements such as oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. Finding the earliest traces of these common elements would shed important light on the chemical evolution of galaxies, including our own. New observations with the Atacama […]
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During the last thirteen years (2004 – 2017), the Cassini-Huygens mission allowed a real revolution in the exploration of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. This mission has revealed that Titan is – in many aspects – very similar to Earth. Titan is a frozen version of Earth, where methane behaves as water, and water ice may be as hard […]
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The IPGP is pleased to welcome Linda Spilker from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Scientific Director of the Cassini mission, as part of its general seminars. On May 18 at 11am, she will discuss the Cassini mission on Saturn, the results obtained at the end of the mission, and the legacy of this extraordinary scientific adventure. While waiting for this […]
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The ESA Planck team has been honoured with the 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize for its mission mapping the cosmic microwave background – relic radiation from the Big Bang that is still observable today. The annual prize is awarded by the Gruber Foundation, based at Yale University in the United States, and recognises “individuals whose research inspires and enables fundamental shifts […]
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