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Archived News Items — 2008

April 2008

 

Black Hole thrown out of parent galaxy

Saturn’s furious five month storm

Early ultra compact galaxies weigh heavy

Old globular clusters surprisingly young

‘Bouncing’ grains explain Mars’ storms

Artists’ names for Mercury features

Slo-mo supernovae show cosmic time-warp

Where did the mini-galaxies go?

Solar flare from the blank Sun

New light on the aurorae

Observatory boasts darkest skies

Kielder: Gateway to the Universe

Plan to identify watery planets

Freighter boosts altitude of ISS

Mercury may hit the Earth... one day

Black Holes reveal more secrets

Twisted mag fields with Black Hole jet

Space ‘webs’ could propel probes

Herschel Space Telescope assembled

Opportunity suffering ‘frozen shoulder’

Galaxies go wild

Galaxies galore for Hubble’s 18th

Atomic rhythms give precise fix

NASA ‘should follow Columbus’

Why Maths is sexy — John Hurt

LCROSS to search for lunar water

Mysterious ‘young things’ in solar system

Mars radar sounding by MARSIS

Cherry into space

Soyuz lands short of target

Solar fares set Sun quaking

More doubt on cosmic climate link

Hothouse Earth would halt plate tectonics

Plants ‘thrive’ on Moon-rock diet

ET contact odds extremely low

Moon’s birth changed length of Earth days

Stellar birth in the galactic wilderness

‘Babelfish’ could translate for ET

Drifting star

Ion engine enters space race

Titan: treasures of Earth’s oily twin

Dark Forces at work

Dark Matter found on Earth?

Rees demands Europe space rethink

Attempt to keep Ulysses alive

Space microbes may reveal life origins

Pioneer mystery may be laid to rest

Milky Way’s Black Hole awoke 300 years ago

Cassini’s grand tour extended

Big rise in sea-level forecast

‘Black Hole’ scientist dies at 96

Dark Matter mystery solved — again

Brian May installed as Uni Chancellor

Solar wind removes comet tail

Smallest exoplanet found?

Probe pictures Mars’ moon Phobos

Phoenix Mars Lander fine-tuned for landing

Rekindling the Pluto debate

Why is the brightest blast still blazing?

Hubble pinpoints record breaking burster

The great anti-matter mystery

Did pre-big bang universe leave its mark?

Ocean mud yields impact secrets

Coldest known stellar object

Dazzling view of Omega Centauri

Cosmic engines surprise XMM-Newton

New tech. could find Earth-like planets

Laser is ‘brightest light in the universe’

Peter Higgs at the LHC

Did sound once travel at light speed?

Funding squeeze

Spiral arms may show black-holes’ weight

Solar System ‘look-alike’ found

LSST giant scope starts with a spin

People power dents cosmic ‘axis of evil’

Search for Venus’ active volcanoes

Hubble sees exploding star

The colours of alien plants

Divisive idea ‘explains galaxies’

Astronomers ‘must make own case’

ALICE loss would ‘waste’ £25m

‘Focused’ solar flares much hotter

Global temperatures to decrease this year

Black Hole in Omega Centauri

ATV Jules Verne over UK

Giant robots could carry lunar bases

No ‘Sun link’ to climate change

Space truck’s big moment arrives

Astronomers see ‘youngest’ planet

Movie of ‘tsunami’ on Sun

Matter-Antimatter split hints at breakdown

Grav. wave detectors get upgrade

Meteor showers observed at Mars

Hubble expert gives lecture

Spinning stars make astronomers dizzy

10 new exoplanets found

QUB astronomers help find planets

Smallest known Black Hole

Two unique star systems found

Heavy stars may go out with a whimper

 

May 2008

 

Strange ring circles dead star

Signs found of many ‘super Earths’

‘Hot photons’ cast light on Dark Energy

Was Mars too salty for life?

Human remains explain Stonehenge?

Famous supernovae still echo

Fastest spinning asteroid

Milky Way loses weight!

Phoenix diary

Data link restored from MRO to Phoenix

Berlin unveils ‘crewed spaceship’

Frosts on Pluto

Gamma-ray mission may detect Dark Matter

Mars lander in good health

Stunning images of Phoenix

MRO snaps descending Phoenix

Phoenix touches down on Mars

Mars landing in pictures

Is this sunspot cycle a dud?

Science probe for ‘space pistols’

Exploding star caught in the act

Once-in-a-lifetime event

Sound ‘cause of shadow spectacle’

Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice

Laser heats up fusion future

Hubble finds missing matter

Dark Energy ‘imaged’ in best detail yet

What really happened to water on Mars?

Hint of ancient floods on Mars

Risky descent for Mars Phoenix lander

Hidden biomass deep beneath the oceans

Third red spot erupts on Jupiter

Sun not ‘fine-tuned’ for life

Pipsqueak star unleashes monster flare

Biggest Black Holes mystery

Evolution rolls on for Mars Rover

Key molecule in Venusian atmosphere

How to lose a hole the size of the Universe

Black Holes may be lurking

Rare stellar quartet aids evolution models

Was Einstein religious?

How information escape from a Black Hole

Shuttle replacement may make water landings

Europe could get manned spaceship

Files released on UFO sightings

Brightness of Universe doubled

Eccentric pulsar puzzle

ET no problem for Vatican

Virtual telescope opens night sky

Youngest supernova remnant in Milky Way

The temperature of the cosmic background

Volunteers wanted to find dead Mars craft

Antennae galaxies closer than we thought

Why didn’t Earth freeze under young Sun?

Search for ‘vanishing stars’

Iron ‘snow’ helps Mercury’s magnetic field

Magnetic rocks may reveal Martian life

Do we occupy a special place in the Universe?

Found: Part of Universe’s missing matter

New breed of star

Stellar time-bomb on schedule

Plasma powered flying saucer

Did Earth once have multiple moons?

Spacecraft to fly into Sun’s corona

Earth ‘noise’ could attract aliens

The sky tonight—May 2008

 

June 2008

 

Martian soil ‘could support life’

Physics teacher shortage warning

Fire in the Sky: Tunguska at 100

Mars’ two-faced riddle ‘solved’

Most extreme life forms

Galaxy map hints at fractal Universe

Causality & puzzle of quantum spacetime

Meteorite could hold solar clues

Mars probe makes ice discovery

Frozen stars shed light on dark matter?

Caesar’s landing re-dated by astronomy

Doubt over date for Brit invasion

Lazy pulsar powered by companion

Is an eclipse mentioned in Odyssey poem?

Did volcanoes trigger Mars mega-flood?

Fans rebel against ‘plutoid’ designation

Galaxy cannibals eat their neighbours

Hawaiian lava holds clue to planet evolution

VLBI first four-continent telescope

Earth’s laws still apply in distant galaxy

Supernovae blasts kick-started stars

Secondary sparkling Saturn aurorae

Identical twin stars surprisingly different

Genetic building blocks formed in space?

Earth ‘not at risk’ from LHC collider

Giant Moon illusion

Colossus returns

Sun sets on Ulysses mission

Trio of super-Earths discovered

Phoenix diary:  Ice on Mars

New type of comet dust mineral

Dark matter decay disguises dwarf galaxies?

Lift-off for NASA GLAST space telescope

NASA’s GLAST eye on ‘violent cosmos’

IAU announces ‘Plutoids’

Would an anti-matter apple fall up?

Martian soil in Phoenix at last

Phoenix tries shake & sprinkle

Radio waves clear out radiation belt

Hubble captures Coma Cluster

Hints of time ‘before Big Bang’

Inflation deflated?  Big Bang’s toughest test

Missile practice for Moon mission

Gamma-ray scope to open new window

Amateurs help glimpse astrophysical jet

Baby Quasar detected

Cassini sees collisions of moonlets

KELT little telescope to go online

Black Holes stop star formation

Black Holes ‘fireworks’ lit early cosmos?

Could Phoenix microbes survive on Mars?

Narrowing the search for ET

Astronomy study proves maths theorem

Nearby galaxies chock full of Dark Matter

Supernova hunt finds solar system bodies

Two spiral arms may be demoted

Astronomers update galaxy’s structure

Black Holes shape galaxy spiral arms

Tiniest extrasolar planet found

Super-luminous supernovae

ET contact may be sooner than we think

EPOXI checks out super Earths

Recipe for giant lunar telescope

Giant Milky Way mosaic

Supernovae point to Quark Stars?

Suspiciously slow stars surprise

Infra-red survey reveals Milky Way

New contenders for Dark Matter title

Predicting a stellar catastrophe

Liquid mirror telescopes now a reality

Phoenix grabs scoop of Mars

Phoenix sees possible ice

The sky tonight -- June 2008 (ROG)