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Archived News Items — 2007

February 2007

 

Milestone for giant physics lab

‘New Horizons’ makes Jupiter fly-by

Comet probe makes Mars fly-by

Titan’s lake rivals Caspian Sea

Pulsars may shed light on Dark Matter

Dark Matter may be end of Milky Way

Rare crater spotted on Titan?

Australia braces for Martian invasion

Lunar eclipse due March 3rd

Rosetta prepares for Mars fly-by

20th anniversary of SN1987A

Stellar dance explains SN shape

New Horizons Update-5

Quasar superclusters found

Magnetic surprise by XMM-Newton

Spitzer analyses exo-atmosphere

Sun’s south pole surprises Ulysses

Probe to look for Martian rings

Fastest spinner may have exotic heart

INTEGRAL finds fastest spin neutron star

NASA’s Aurora mission blasts-off

THEMIS to probe Aurorae

Naked-eye Nova in Scorpius

Sun-like star in early development

Action plan for killer asteroids

Grav. wave observers join forces

No trace of Beagle 2

Colourful demise of a Sun-like star

Focus on Europa

Satellite might see extra dimensions

Seeking the heart of darkness

Rocks reveal Mars’ watery past

Light is shed on darkest galaxies

Mystery of darkest galaxies solved

Comet clash kicks-up dusty haze

Red planet ‘hiking maps’ made

Lift off for Chinese space potato

Asteroid sampler could come home

Universe contains more calcium

Our Black Hole — particle accelerator?

New Horizons sees solar wind interactions

Enceladus a ‘cosmic graffiti artist’

Keep Earth cool with Moondust?

Glitches on MRO

Ulysses swoops under Sun’s pole

GRB theory questioned

New universes will be born from ours

Hubble shows cluster of diverse galaxies

High-energy systems hidden in gas cocoon

‘Relic wind’ shows behaviour of dead stars

Martian moon’ could be key test’

Planck satellite prepares to go super-cold

Do ‘hidden dimensions’ exist?

Way to ‘see’ extra dimensions

Humans blamed for climate change

Mammoth cloud engulfs Titan’s pole

‘New Horizons’ update-1

Discovery Channel telescope update

Night-time clouds on Mars

New particle accelerator LHC

 

January 2007

 

Hubble’s main camera shuts down

Mars Orbiter views Jupiter

‘Sun didn’t blow water off Mars’

Hubble probes exo-world’s atmosphere

Sea launch rocket explodes on pad

Dig deep for life on Mars

Psychedelic Saturn

Shadows on ice

Pan’s progress

Unexpected cooling in Saturn’s atmosphere

Frozen sea may harbour Mars life

James Webb ST shutters past test

‘Last gasp’ test could reveal Dark Matter

Hints of huge water reservoirs on Mars

Great Barrier Reef could ‘soon die’

Most distant clusters found hidden

2006 hurricane season near normal

New scope technology from NASA

COROT in operation

Fickle Sun may leave us cold

Speedy star reveals LMC black hole?

Moon astronauts face X-ray danger

Did the new Moon lose its iron heart?

Aliens need a lot more time to find us

Pluto probe heads for Jupiter encounter

Dark Matter gets its own Dark Force

Europe’s Mars rover may need to slim

First images from COROT planet-seeker

Loner’s claim to gravity prize

Dark Energy ‘may be vacuum’

Hypergiant’s outbursts mapped

Hubble sees nearby infant stars

Gas Giants form quickly

Diamonds from outer space

Dwarf Planet ‘may become a comet’

The volcano that blighted Britain

Rethinking Supernova SN1987A

Black Holes’ triple interactions common

NMM GCSE class in the news

The James Webb Space Telescope

In pictures: Comet McNaught

Probe studies extreme physics

Triple Quasars found

Satellite swarm to study aurorae

Korolev birth centenary

Software bug crashed Mars probe MGS?

Lost Mars rover spotted?

Feast or famine for our Black Hole

Europe targets own Moon & Mars missions

Supersonic gales rage on planets

Magellanic Clouds ‘just passing’

Star may have four magnetic poles

Mars microbes overlooked?

‘Pillars of creation’ already destroyed

Britain plans first Moon mission

Kepler’s supernova helps dark energy study?

Pluto probe starts Jupiter study

Speeding upsets galactic family picture

Google to help build giant telescope

New stars offer clue to the past

The Higgs Boson just got lighter

Experts home in on ‘god particle’

Tiny galaxy hosts huge black hole

Astronomers see first quasar trio

Hubble makes 3-D Dark Matter map

Dark Matter mapped in 3-D

Sky at Night enters 50th year

‘Plutoed’ voted US word of the year

Dying galaxy to be re-born?

Meteors seen striking the Moon

Quantum physics to pin down g constant

Vast halo extends galaxy’s size

Amazon boss shows off spacecraft

Brightest supernova discovery

‘Proof’ of methane lakes on Titan

Shock waves may spin pulsars

Black Hole found in globular cluster

Mars Rovers are taught new tricks

Huge Arctic ice break discovered

2007 to be ‘warmest on record’

High flyer listens for neutrinos’ pings

The Year in Astronomy 2006

2006 — The Year in Astronomy

 

March 2007

 

UK impact crater debate heats up

No Snowball Earth after all

Is Dark Energy an illusion?

Planets thriving around stellar twins

Planets common around tight stellar pairs

3-D Imaging reaches the stars

Bizarre ‘hexagon’ on Saturn

Global ‘sunscreen’ has thinned

Liverpool telescope unravels GRBs

New Horizons has temporary freeze

Stereo sees total eclipse

‘Superflare’ shredded Earth’s ozone

Supersonic bullets in Orion

Photon’s life cycle watched in full

France opens UFO files

New Horizons images Red Spot Jr

The Universe is a string-net liquid

First simulation of white dwarf explosion

Enceladus masks length of Saturn’s day

Hinode gives new view of the Sun

‘The impossible’ revealed on the Sun

KBO broken up 4.5 billion years ago

Comet Encke is a load of rubbish

Stereo-B captures lunar transit

‘Cave entrances’ spotted on Mars

Polar water ‘would blanket Mars’

‘Crater’ spied under California

Rover churns up sulphur-rich soil

Seas on Titan revealed

Cluster mission opens a new window

Hang-gliding on Mars movies

Asteroid mission concept unveiled

Beagle 2 ‘could go to the Moon

Hot start explains moon’s geysers

Galileo sat-nav in decisive phase

Panorama reveals 1000 black holes

Light puts asteroids into a spin

Is the Universe a fractal?

ALMA radio telescope passes key test

Galaxies don’t change much

China confirms 2007 Moon shot

Surging groundwater solves Mars mystery

Thousands of growing galaxies

Lunar eclipse wows sky-watchers

Eclipse leaves gazers over the Moon

Link between big & small stellar blasts

Better forecast of solar storms

Taste of Mars ... in Tibet

AEGIS survey of maturing Universe

NASA peers deep inside hurricanes

Pacific morphing to cool La Nina

Towers point to ancient Sun cult

‘New Horizons’ sees Io volcanic plume

Cassini snaps Saturn from dizzying height

Milky Way ‘particle accelerator’?

Amazing view of Io

STEREO previews solar storm tracking