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Archived News Items — 2008

July 2008

 

Phoenix ‘tastes’ first sample of water

Phoenix lander samples Mars’ water

First stars in new simulation

Olympic link to Antikythera ‘computer’

Was ancient calculator to teach astronomy?

50 years of NASA in pictures

Super-voids &  -clusters indicate Dark Energy

Barred spirals were late arrivals

Phoenix gets stuck

Supernova SN2008D controversy

How novae make the Universe dusty

Infrared filters see Black Hole disks

Mercury shrinks in size

Comets spawned when ‘mum’ breaks up?

Gravitational lensing infers Dark Matter

Planet & star in puzzling waltz

Organic ‘cemeteries’ on ancient Mars

‘Organics’ destroyed in Pinwheel zone

Magnetic slingshot creates aurora on Earth

XMM sees the Nova everyone else missed

Hypothetical particle and inflation test

The Pole star reborn

Stellar nursery found near Milky Way heart

Water ‘widespread’ on early Mars

Venus Express closing in

Awaiting a messenger from the Multiverse

Mars Express sees Phobos

Time-lapse images of the Moon

Asteroid switched Mars’ mag field on & off

Phoenix rasps frozen layer sample

Chandra weighs massive Black Hole

Are we living in giant cosmic void?

New competition for brightest star

Is largest asteroid Pluto’s wayward cousin?

Early galaxies’ mag fields strong as now

Water dampens Moon formation theory

Apophis prediction off by mega-miles

Star cluster with three birthdays

Distant solar system body ‘Makemake’

Underwater neutrino telescope

Star baby boom in distant Universe

Moon’s interior ‘did hold water’

Hot super-Earths could host life

Phoenix struggling with icy payload

Faint supernovae still unexplained

Date set for Mars sample mission

NASA watches for ‘civilisation killer’

NASA sets final shuttle dates

Jupiter’s third Red Spot torn apart

UK Mars Rover hopes face set-back

Few Sun-like stars produce planets

Research spin on asteroids

STFC announces £2 billion funding

The best Cassini images

Rosetta wakes-up for asteroid fly-by

Lithium hole in Big Bang theory

Anaemic Mercury

Smallest Planet shrinks in size

Puzzle over Dark Energy supernovae

30th anniversary of Charon discovery

Blast may throw out ‘plasma cannonballs’

First measurement of termination shock

Solar sail gets another chance

Pulsar’s wobble provides new Einstein test

Online game for ‘black hole hunters’

Hubble looks at supernova remnant SN1006

Cluster listens to the sounds of Earth

Did newborn Earth harbour life?

Regulus’ secret companion

The Sky Tonight — July

 

August 2008

 

Earth’s leaky atmosphere

Asteroids & meteorites missing link

Cosmic crash reveals Dark Matter

First light for GLAST/Fermi space scope

Mars Rover driving out of crater

Monster galaxy cluster found by XMM

Stars pose for family portrait

Phoenix in extended mission

New object clue to inner Oort Cloud?

Great Pluto debate continues

Enceladus images ‘dazzling success’

Cassini swoops past Enceladus

Hubble celebrates 100,000 orbits

Computer sims put solar system in its place

Dark Matter clumps within Milky Way?

CERN set for beam milestone

Solar Systems like ours may be rare

Open science promised for Phoenix

Phoenix diary

Cause of Falcon 1 launch failure

Eta Carinae begins to dim unexpectedly

Hubble studies globular clusters

No interstellar dust yet found by Stardust

Teacher finds new cosmic object

Cosmic ghost haunts Galaxy Zoo

Does ET watch ‘Eastenders’?

Rosetta sets sights on Steins

Antimatter & matter don’t always go bang

Very first stars simulated

Total eclipse dazzles viewers in China

World watches total eclipse (BBC/ROG)

World watches total Sun eclipse

Your pictures of the solar eclipse (BBC)

 

September 2008

 

Hubble glitch delays Shuttle trip

Jules Verne destroyed over Pacific

China spacecraft returns to Earth

‘Oldest rocks’ challenged

Team finds ‘Earth’s oldest rocks’

The Peak of Eternal Light

Impact explains Mars’ wonky mag. field

Phoenix peeks under a rock

Sun siblings seeded early life?

Nearby supernova — 10 years after

Falcon rocket success

Magnetar springs to life

Solar wind blows at 50-year low

Life evidence could be in Martian meteorites

Dig pinpoints Stonehenge origins

Saturn’s rings older and bigger

Neil Armstrong makes rare speech

Have we already found an Earth-like planet?

Hawking unveils ‘strangest clock’

Flow hints at huge masses over horizon

‘Dark Flow’ transports galaxies

Digital upgrades for radio astronomy

LHC out until spring

From slow-down to speed-up

Pinning-down the Milky Way’s spin

Saturn’s radio broadcast

Dust reveals mixed-up solar system

Fly-by anomalies point to new physics?

Mercury ‘spider’ from asteroid impact

SWIFT detects record gamma-ray burst

Strange orbit from planetary billiards?

Galaxy most dominated by Dark Matter

LHC halted for months

What happened to the ‘Big Bang Machine’?

Explosion is most distant ever seen

3-D look at Venus’ raging winds

Europe plans asteroid sample grab

Dimmest known galaxy found

Science questions for wanna-be Presidents

X-Ray pulse seen in biggest Holes

A conference on the Multiverse

Is this an alien planet?

Hubble mission rescheduled to Oct 10

Water present on Mars billion years longer

Hubble captures rare alignment

Controversy over telescope origin

Dwarf planet finally named ‘Haumea’

NASA selects Mars climate mission

Space ‘firefly’ like no known object

Exoplanet circles normal star

First image of planet around Sun-like star

Dark Matter ‘bridge to nowhere’ found

Revamping Hubble

Our Sun could be an immigrant star

Dark Matter disk in our Galaxy

Naked eye GRB aimed at Earth

Eta Carinae’s multi-stage eruptions

Is Dark Matter a WIMP or a CHAMP?

Episodic flooding on Mars

‘Water bears’ survive space vacuum

Planets in young dust disks

LHC lights up the future of particle physics

Protons make milestone trip through LHC

New ring arcs seen orbiting Saturn

Powering up the biggest physics experiment

Steins ‘a diamond in the sky’

Distant objects orbit Sun backwards

Phoenix’s vapour quandary

Combing the Universe

Interstellar snowball carried life seeds?

Milky Way look-alike

Comets disguised as asteroids

Seeing closer to the Milky Way’s Black Hole

Sun’s face virtually spot-free for months

Crab Nebula life after death

Supercrash shows rarity of anti-matter

Building the biggest galaxies