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Archived News Items — 2006

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March 2006

 

“A glorious eclipse”

Total solar eclipse

Neutron star collisions create magnetic spikes

New oxygen recipe on icy moons

New class of comets source of water?

Venus visible at dawn

‘Sterile’ neutrinos may solve conundrums

Earth rocks could have taken life to Titan

‘Rivers’ of stars may illuminate dark matter

Precursor to broadband in space

Backflip reveals intense cosmic radiation

Mysteries of asteroid Itokawa

Universe’s first trillionth of a second

WMAP bolsters case for cosmic inflation

Best ever map of the early universe

GRB mystery deepens

Munch mystery solved

Front wheel on Mars Rover stops

Galaxy on fire!

Saturn ring spokes may return in July

Brown dwarves weighed directly

Double helix found in Milky Way

Black Holes the ultimate quantum computers?

Doubts cast on Venus catastrophe

Comet material from hottest places

Martian ice :  wide and deep

Planet hunters find ‘super-Earth’

Common birth of Pluto’s moons?

Stardust’s tiny treasures

Google heads for Mars

MRO enters orbit

Mars Orbiter reaches red planet

Q&A NASA’s Mars Orbiter

Telescopes ‘worthless’ by 2050

Shuttle hopes for three flights

Three cosmic enigmas :  one answer?

Cassini finds evidence for water on Enceladus

Sunspot cycle solved?

Jupiter’s new red spot :  “Red Spot Jr.”

 

January 2006

 

Is cosmic acceleration changing?

Deep in Virgo

South Pole neutrino hunter

‘Augmented reality’ telescope… ?

Cosmic rays linked to cloudy days

Most stars are single!

Milky Way brims with singleton stars

It’s an icy exoplanet!

Smallest extra-solar planet yet

Smallest Earth-like planet found

Low mass Exoplanet

Gravity theory dispenses with dark matter

Stark warning over climate change

A sharper eye-on-the-sky

Rocky rings around Sun-like stars

Asteroid dust on Earth

Phenomenon may heat space

New Horizons probe sets sail

Stardust science begins

Stardust capsule returns to Earth

First Galileo signals received

The girl who named Pluto

Neutron star smashes speed limit

Return to the Orangey world

New Milky Way neighbour

Mini-galaxies reveal dark matter stream?

Vega mystery solved

GRB study rules out cosmo constant?

Charon has no atmosphere

More evidence for Black Holes

Hubble’s view of Orion

Dark matter halo warps Milky Way

Collisions’ role in formation

How first magnetic field formed

Our Galaxy’s bustling centre

Monster Black Holes

Longest laser link

Black Holes creating havoc

There’s more to the North Star ...

‘Point of no return’ for black holes

Take a leap into hyperspace

Milky Way is warped and ringing

Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs

Supernova rate confirmed

New Scientist’s top 10 2005 stories

2005 — The year in Astronomy

 

 

February 2006

 

Agog over stellar explosion

London Planetarium to close

Top stars picked in alien search

Cocoons found around Polaris ...

Best view of Pluto & moons

Millions of unseen Milky Way objects

New kind of star found

Japan launches space telescope

Key role for ‘British’ astronaut

Solving a cosmic ray mystery

Candidates for habitable worlds

Appeal to buy Robert Hooke notes

...hints of mega-solar systems

Comet dust samples in UK

NASA leaves telescope on runway

Distance record for aircraft broken

Martian meteorite may have held life

Lifting Venus’ veil

Man in the Moon’s birth revealed

NASA unveils toughest challenges

Dusty disks around hypergiants

NASA seeks partners as budgets tighten

Million star theft

Hubble explodes ‘evidence’ of strings

NASA divert cash into shuttle

Poles apart over Moon landing sites

Xena reignites a planet-sized debate

‘Tepid’ temperature of dark matter

Dark Matter comes out of the cold

NASA Inspector ‘’ignored safety violations’

Andromeda’s satellite is faintest yet

Deep Impact reveals comet’s icy cargo

Trojans boost planet-forming theory

Kuiper Belt News

‘Tenth planet’ is bigger than Pluto

Stellar ‘partner swaps’ yield GRBs