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December 2008

2008 The Year in Astronomy

2008: The Year in the Solar System

Most extreme news stories of 2008

2008: The Year in Spaceflight

Happy Birthday Earthrise

40th anniversary of Apollo 8

A Christmas cluster

The year in science 2008

Tiny clues to collision in space

Cosmology top 10 from 2008

Top 10 objects flown in space

Pope praises Galileo Galilei

Space is just a little bit closer

Pilgrimage at the centre of time

Battle to save GMT

Split second could spell end of GMT

Dark Energy independently confirmed?

What was the Star of Bethlehem?

Neutrino scope being built in Antarctica

Hole found in Earth’s magnetic field

“Shocking” state of City Obs. Edinburgh

Phoenix in dry phase of climate cycle?

NASA finds ‘missing’ Mars mineral

Flaw theory on Beagle 2 loss

Great escape of water from Venus

Light on Dark Energy mystery

Southern sky to be mapped

What came before the Big Bang?

Spinning droplets move like black holes

Titan has ice volcanoes

Biggest Moon for 15 years

Archimedes & 2000 year-old computer

Water found 11 bill. light years away

2008 is coolest year since 2000

Cosmic diamonds in carbon onions?

Enceladus has ‘spreading surface’

Dissecting a super-massive black hole

Wobbly planets show Earth-like moons?

Milky Way’s history via red giants

Universe’s faintest stars

Carbon dioxide on exoplanet

Swirling water: chance of life on Europa

Giant Black Hole confirmed in Milky Way

Mars climate history in ancient rocks

Space elevator could be slow

Gaseous rives around stars, by Spitzer

Green light for UK Moon mission

Meteorites sparked life on Earth?

Water found in hot planet’s orbit

Brown dwarves do form like stars

Dark matter mix ‘just right for life’

LHC needs warning system

M13 Hubble’s ‘snow globe’ of stars

Meteorite hunters hit paydirt in Canada

A new class of comet?

Ancient supernova mystery solved

Venus ultraviolet puzzle ‘solved’

Comet birthplace in Big Bang afterglow?

NASA delays Mars mission

X-ray machine’s brilliant future

World ‘must tackle space threat’

New view of Omega Centauri cluster

P02 Jan 3, 2009