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Archived News Items — 2006

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July 2006

 

World watched Huygens descend

Methane drizzles on Titan

Physics funding gets revamp

Planet-forming disks slow star spin

Census of nearby hidden black holes

Star soon to become supernova

Tut’s gem hints at space impact

Hurricane nursery stake-out

Spacesuits could heal themselves

Ion engine to Titan?

Einstein in no-sock shock

New quasar view emerges

Space walk for sale — $15 mills.

Electromagnetic space travel for bugs

Podcast:  Meteorites

Lunar probe to go out with a bang

Bubble ousts black hole at galaxy centre

Relic neutrinos in hunt for dark energy

Titan may be riddled with caves

SOFIA saved

Saturn’s spare tyre

Europe plans giant eye-on-the-sky

Stellar explosion in unique detail

A clearer picture of comet make-up

NASA seeks help for Mars mission

Red Spot Jr. buzzes big brother

Jupiter’s spots have close encounter

Chaotic Martian landscape revealed

Satellites track Indian underground fires

Rush threatens Hubble successor

Titan region appears Earth-like land

Plasma bubble could protect astronauts

Safe landing for shuttle Discovery

China test-fires new engine

Deep Impact reveals comet’s components

Inflatable Space module puffs up

Astronauts finish final spacewalk

Venus double vortex mystery

Earliest black holes bend laws of physics

India’s largest satellite destroyed at launch

Galileo satellite has code cracked

Predicting solar eruptions

Wild weather gives Earth the jitters

GPS could help predict weather

Starshade to aid exo-planet search

Supernova on a bridge

Shuttle heat shield ‘safe’

Mini solar system could reveal dimensions

Earth’s coldest star party

Nanoparticles light up the galaxy

Neutron star is old before its time

Dark matter found gobbling nearby gas

 

August 2006

 

Plot to overturn planet definitions

Supernova caught in the act

Supernova captured in real time

Shuttle weathers storm

MRO closes in on Mars

Magnetars may power wimpy GRBs

Clouds shimmer in Martian sky

Four new Milky Way satellites

New planet definition strikes furore

Aether returns to oust dark matter

Goofy decision? Pluto not a planet

Result of the IAU resolution votes

Final IAU resolution on ‘planet’ definition

Astronomers say Pluto is not a planet

NASA names new spacecraft ‘Orion’

Voyager 1 milestone

Quintuplet-stars mystery solved

Direct proof of dark matter

Cosmic smash-up proof of dark matter

Team finds ‘proof’ of dark matter

SALT shows white dwarf ‘gluttony’

Ice geysers discovered on Mars

Planet vote to draw from rival definitions

Pluto may yet lose planet status

Hubble glimpses faintest stars

Flybys key to Pioneer anomaly?

First sunspot of next cycle?

Dusty spirals from incognito stars

Mass cut-off from stars to brown dwarves

The case of the missing Deuterium

Mystery spots on Mars

Lighting is still in the dark

IAU draft definition of ‘planet’ & ‘plutons’

Q&A New Planets Proposal

Twelve Planets?

What’s a planet?

New definitions would add three planets

Experts meet to decide fate of Pluto

Search on for Moon landing film

ESA Planck space telescope test

ALMA sets new heights

Sky watchers await celestial show

Big Bang reconciled with ‘missing’ Lithium

The Sun in HD STEREO soon

Big Crunches wipe the slate clean

Kepler space telescope mirror arrives

Possible solar systems in Orion

Dwarf survives in stellar furnace

Moon’s odd shape

Mars Rovers in good shape

Large & small stars in coexistence

Cosmic dust not to blame

Classy telescope auction

Observations shake up galactic theories

Hubble sees star of distant planet

Chandra determines Hubble constant

Big Bang pushed back 2 billion years

Universe bigger than believed

How pure is the comet?

James Van Allen dies at 91

Pre-life molecules in comets

X-rays reveal Archimedes’ secrets

Free-floating ‘planemos’

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September 2006

 

Rover Opportunity at Victoria crater

Nations vie for giant telescope

Solar flares will disrupt GPS in 2011

Planetary disk around large star

Dark cloud on Uranus

‘Disappearing’ lakes on Titan?

Branson unveils Virgin spaceship

Two more planets discovered

Planets have scientists buzzing

Massive stars form by absorption

New Horizons snaps Jupiter

Agreement on EU science funding

Japan launches ‘solar microscope’

Spacecraft launches to study Sun

Private space rocket crashes

Benjamin Franklin’s lightning paper online

Mars missions extended

Hundreds of young galaxies found

New Saturn ring discovered

Atlantis shuttle returns safely

Extreme gravity no sweat for Einstein

Dead stars provide Einstein test

South American annular eclipse

Atlas V may carry tourists one day

Astronomers peer at distant epoch

Exploding star ‘breaks the rules’

Solar variations not to blame

New visage for Red Planet ‘face’

Puffy planet poses pretty puzzle

All hail ‘Eris’

Astronomers name ‘world of chaos’

Brown dwarves may stretch exo orbits

Mars probe obtains first radar images

Oldest recorded supernova dated

Huge ethane cloud on Titan

Winter Arctic sea ice in drastic decline

Meet the citizen scientists

Radio 4: Citizen Scientists

Atlantis blasts off

Spitzer maps LMC

Solar-B getting ready for launch

Dark Matter ‘proof’ called into doubt

Lunar data from SMART-1

Hot stars discovered in ‘boring’ clusters

Earth-like planets may be common

“A Moon jumped out in front of me”

Pluto gets an asteroid number

Size doesn’t matter — Honk for Pluto

Aye to the telescope

Hubble first:  Uranus solar eclipse

Moon game good enough for NASA

Lockheed to build moonship

NASA to boldly go with Lockheed-Martin