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Archived News Items — 2006

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April 2006

 

Climate satellite launched, finally

‘Big bang never happened …’

‘Starquake’ rips neutron star open

New objects beyond Neptune

Efficiency of black hole ‘engines’

Strange satellite galaxies of Milky Way

Comet break-up, by Hubble

Spacecraft seeks climate clarity

The battle over certainty

Detail in first Venus images

Older black holes still energetic

No decision yet on Yerkes

Kuiper belt weirdo

Crescent Titan with rings

Happy Birthday Hubble sweet 16

New member for GMT telescope

Another constant accused of changing

Stark warning over climate change

Mars cameras debut on MRO

Lobsters inspire X-ray telescopes

Tenth planet as bright as fresh snow

First images from Venus Express

Galaxy cluster building block process

Search for dark galaxies

Exploding ‘star within a star’

Mars ‘smiley face’ crater

Enceladus ‘best bet’ for life?

Mysterious break-up beyond Saturn

Uranus ring sparkling ice

Pulsars habour planet-forming disks

Bid to spot alien beams

Water debate from Deep Impact data

Supernova backwash forms planets?

X-ray slew survey ...

Why galaxies tilt just so

Mercury blast splashed Earth

Uncovered crater solves mystery

Rocky planets may circle white dwarfs

Astronews briefs

 

 

May 2006

 

Hubble’s successor takes shape

Black Hole-Galaxy link extended

How to detect a new dimension

Satellite could open dimension door

Mars Rovers to get smart upgrade

SOHO will lead fleet of solar observatories

Hubble sees five-fold lensing

Largest map of Universe yet

More on Iapetus

Innovative technique used for discovery

Moon’s highlands show their age

Mission to target highest clouds

Spotting the tracks of gravity waves

SOHO gets new lease of life

Lava tubes snake across Mars

Ariane lifts record payload

“To boldly hide …”

Voyager keeps on truckin’

Planet-shine to ‘aid life search’

Green light for gigantic reactor

Edge of solar system kinky

Distant GRB in a class of its own?

Galactic lens reveals its inner self

Galileo navsat hugely over budget

NASA network under pressure

Risk of asteroid smash reduced

Nuclear fusion plasma tackled

Amateurs help discover exoplanet

Magnetic sled could launch objects

Wide-field telescope will make sky ‘movies’

LSST Telescope set for Chile

Triple Neptune system

Three exoplanets & asteroid belt

Short reign of dwarf galaxies

Search for gravitational waves speeds up

Distant ‘Earths’ will only be seen from space

Catalogue of errors caused collision

Looking for aliens on the Moon

Biggest map of the universe

Hidden neighbours

Hooke manuscript returned home

Brazilian ‘Stonehenge’ discovered

Tsunami risk of asteroid strikes

Early solar system remnants at our feet

Comet break-up sky show

Hubble on Jupiter’s new Red Spot

Ships’ logs clue to magnetic decline

When is a black hole like a dripping tap?

Neptune’s kidnap puzzle ‘cracked’

How Neptune snagged a passing moon

Death-rite of massive stars

Venus probe makes science orbit

Our galaxy’s halo is round, not squashed

Times changing for radio signal

Meteorites carry ancient carbon

India & US to explore the Moon

No sign of aliens

Lunar lander ‘biggest challenge’

Hidden accomplice of supernova

‘Cyclic Universe’ can explain constant

Universe child of previous

Ozone layer — the sequel

Colossal dunes swathe Titan

Jupiter’s red spot ‘races’

Criticism of NASA science budget

Open the pod bay doors, Hal

The perfect time

Saturn’s rotation mystery

‘Cloaking device’ idea

Slim chanceof Earth collision for New asteroid

High energy jets from short GRBs

Cosmic distance calculator

Comets disguised as asteroids

 

June 2006

 

Hubble back online

Minor planets stick together

Naming Pluto’s moons

Massive neutron star rules out exotic matter

Magnetic fields are black holes’ snares

X-ray sources lone neutron stars?

Enigmatic object baffles supernova team

New Horizons target practice

Airborne telescope reprieve

Local stars influence planet growth

‘Turbocharged’ camera snaps away

Hints of huge Neptunian cloud

Antimatter and dark matter search

Upper size limit for moons explained

Extreme star birth by Hubble

Mars chip to test for life signs

Wisps of dust hint at hidden stars

New Mars probe to banish ghost of Beagle 2

A new hole in the Moon

Erratic Enceladus

Norway meteorite

Map shows shape of Milky Way

Birth of carbon planets

Yerkes sale agreed

Supernova rock art?

Black holes too close for comfort

Planets around planets?

Big crater seen beneath ice sheet

Andromeda hosts a trillion stars

NASA in reverse thrust

‘Dead zones’ may save planets

Hamster survives industrial shredder

Itokawa revealed as ‘impossible’ asteroid