Last autumn, nearly 400 astronomers gathered in Paris for a week-long discu
ssion and review of ISO results, as presented in some 300 papers, This arti
cle presents a handful of ISO's many results, selected mainly from the Proc
eedings (ESA SP-427) of the Paris meeting both to show the breadth of the s
cientific fields being impacted by ISO and to complement results that have
previously appeared in the 'In Brief' pages of the Bulletin. ISO has delive
red a wealth of new results, spanning long-awaited confirmations of models
to unexpected surprises and from our own Solar System out to the most dista
nt extragalactic sources.