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Archived News Items — 2005

April 2005

 

New images from Hubble at 15

Doubts overshadow Hubble’s 15th

Red giant reborn

Eternal light at a lunar pole

Mars’ ancient equator

Cosmic shell beauty by Chandra

Mystery of eccentric orbits

Roasted in black hole

Collision of stellar winds

Mars dust devil caught in action

Dusty debris may be asteroid belt

Early Universe liquid-like

Probe shuts itself down

Our photographic heritage

Wrangle over changing ‘constant’

Quark hunt draws a blank

Impact risk scale revised

Very colourful solar eclipse

Huygens’ pebble ‘bash-down’

Cosmic traffic pile-up...

Shaping aurorae

Enormous X-ray loop...

Cassini shows signs of wear

Swift measures distance to GRBs

One Sedna mystery solved

M31’s strange star clusters

An Extremely Large Telescope

Celestron sold, again

Fossil galaxies cannibals

Galactic pancake mystery solved

X-rays tell merger story

Astronomers to be ‘dazled’

Mars rovers enjoy new lease of life

Solar eclipse rarity

Good news for Goldilocks

Plenty of ‘Earths’ await discovery

Spitzer catches early starlight

Swift ready for Universe’s worst

Galaxy has mystery star clusters

First image of exo-planet

Telescopes see distant planet

Galactic camouflage

Dark energy doomed?

Deep Impact update

Earth’s asymmetrical aurorae

Strange new world

April astro bytes

 

May 2005

 

Andromeda triples in size

‘Slime worlds’ may shows signs of life

Jupiter’s innermost moon is rubbish

Clues to planet formation

Gas giants credited with solar system form.

What are universe’s biggest explosions?

Voyager I reaches edge of solar system

Saturn reflects X-rays

Costs squeeze Hubble successor

Odd spot on Titan baffles

Gravitational lensing spots second exoplanet

MOST cracks massive star

Mars south pole mystery

Light gun fires photons one at a time

Observation shows Titan’s atmosphere

Wormhole wanderers face dilemma

Mars Global Surveyor pictures fellow

Bizarre star brightens like clockwork

New moon of Saturn makes waves

Young Sun’s X-ray flares saved Earth?

Neutron star merger?

Solar sail completes first test

Clue to Pioneer puzzle

Clearing smog leads global brightening

Shuttle replacement needs rethink

Mars Polar Lander found at last?

Twelve new moons for Saturn

Phoebe may be captured comet

Bicycle chosen as best invention

May astro bytes

 

June 2005

 

Titan dark spot may be lake

Crisis looms over acidifying oceans

Clearing smoke may trigger warming rise

Rising sea levels may destroy nuclear dump

Nuclear fusion project goes to France

Pulsar generates space laser

Planets gather in conjunction

Solar sail mission failure ‘certain’

Deep Impact reveals comet’s heart

Russia planning double assault on Mars

Martian life might threaten missions

Beginning for giant Magellan telescope

Deep Perseid impact

Refined clock for age of Milky Way

‘Bumpy dust’ explains common molecule

Dust belt points to planet’s presence

Pandora’s flocks observed

Four views of Saturn’s F-ring

Throat of protostar jet

Rovers beyond 1000 days

Spirit freezes a beautiful moment

Nature’s exotic flashers

Echo of neutron star outburst

Saturn’s embedded Atlas

One view, multiple worlds

Magma oceans across early asteroids

Most Earth-like exoplanet yet

‘Gun’ addresses Jupiter’s core issues

Supernova remnant still spewing energy

July date for Deep Impact

Reactor plasma echoes galaxy distribution

Graphics card reveals supernova collapse

Don’t allow cell-phones on planes!

Biggest cosmos simulation

Mars aurora one of a kind

Life, the universe, & everything, by NASA

Best gravitational wave prospect

Comet potential Earth impactor

The Atomic Clock at 50

Missing neutron star?

UK engineers navigate Europe

Evidence for quasar theory

Surprise ultraviolet show

Probe snaps Earth

June astro bytes

 

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