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P29  Jun 26, 2009

April 2009

Nearby asteroid orbits Sun backwards

Building the James Webb Space Tel.

Sun-like star’s ‘oddball’ planet

Mysterious spokes found on Mercury

Black Holes wander Milky Way edge?

Cosmic blast sets distance mark

NASA may abandon Moon base plans

Vanishing matter points to Black Hole

Enceladus geyser points to liquid ocean

Do stars eat their young?

Does anti-matter fall up?

How do you make anti-matter?

Where is all the anti-matter?

‘Space blob’ baffles astronomers

Magic in Gamma-ray astronomy

Older stars can birth planets

Black Hole spews water vapour

Pillars of Creation formed in the shadows

Dark Matter ripped-up early Universe?

Shock wave blast through galaxy

Excitement about ELT giant scope project

Will Sun’s decline affect climate change?

Is charged dust Enceladus clue?

Space tornadoes create Earth’s aurorae

Imaged ‘planets’ may be failed stars

Lightest exoplanet discovered

Earth-like world found in Gliese 581

UK centre for Mars sample research?

Jet Trail nebula discovered

Exotic dust in comet tail

Complex molecules seen in space

Dead solar systems around white dwarves

Rocky clues from dirty dead stars

Satellite galaxies defying Sir Isaac??

Is ‘accelerating Universe’ a mirage?

‘Quiet Sun’ baffling astronomers

Why is the Sun getting dimmer?

Energy ribbons cause solar flares

Infant stars run wild in Orion

Super stargazer — E-Merlin switch-on

Look inside giant telescope

Failed star is dwarf role model

New comet on show 2009 F6 Yi-SWAN

Why we shouldn’t hide problems from ET

Kepler gets first glimpse

Reflections on exoplanet hunt

Titanium shows solar explosive origins

Galaxy formation theory challenged

Asteroids won’t raise killer waves

Satellite collision could have been worse

Black Hole jet brightens mystery

Does gravity change with the seasons?

Thieving dwarves cause Supernovae

String Theory: a beginners’ guide

Four-way cosmic pile-up

Star crust 10 bill times stronger than steel

STEREO aids space weather warnings

3-D anatomy of solar storm

Galileo: Around the Sun and back

100 hours of astronomy in images

Is Dark Energy getting weaker?

DNA analysis may be done on Mars

Do aliens share our genetic code?

Balloon telescope’s star vision

Universe lit by dusty galaxies

New model of youthful supernovae

Gravity satellite feels the force

Digital model aids ship relaunch

Russia to unveil spaceship plans

Existential vertigo over human origins

Cool stars & different life-forming stuff

Herschel prepares for launch

Overweight galaxies fed by Dark Matter

Signals could be from Dark Matter

Detailed map of nearby Universe

Milky Way hides Dark Matter ‘pancake’?

Arp274 by Hubble

Cosmic map reveals colossal structures

Chandra snaps young pulsar

Titan shape hints at soggy interior

Integral dissects bright GRB

Binary in Orion resolved by VLTI

Hidden exoplanet in Hubble archive

 

May 2009

Celebrating a landmark experiment

Man-made star to unlock secrets

Space storm slams into atmosphere

Search for alien seas

Did life need the asteroid bombardment?

Robots destroyed evidence of Mars life?

ESA announces British astronaut

Dark Matter or Pulsars?

New light shed on Pulsar puzzle

Shuttle releases repaired Hubble

First pictures of a Black Hole soon?

Doomed planet soggy?

New supernova distance standard

GPS accuracy ageing

Lift-off for European telescopes

Stealth storm erupts from the Sun

Astronauts begin Hubble repairs

World’s most daunting parking job

History’s most important telescopes

Peering into Hubble’s future

Pluto namer dies, aged 90

Silicate crystals around EX Lupi

Spirit struggles with soft soil

HST refines Hubble’s Constant

Solar Cycle will be weakest since 1928

New detail of the Horsehead Nebula

Spitzer reborn

Fermi explores new pulsars

Dark Matter ‘signal’ recedes

Orange stars are just right for life

Could flowers bloom on icy Europa?

Postcards from Messenger

Dark Matter ‘highway’ funnels gas

How to map the Multiverse

 

June 2009

Liquid water on Enceladus?

Salty ocean hidden in Saturn moon?

Visions of Saturn at the ROG

New Cassini images

Titan DNA blocks made by solar X-rays?

Exploded stars accelerate cosmic rays

Galaxies come of age in cosmic blobs

Shuttle hints Tunguska blast was comet

Odyssey’s new view of Mars

Cassini snaps Enceladus-Mimas eclipse

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at Moon

Search for Dark Matter goes deep

Huge stellar nursery found

Evidence of lightning on Mars

NASA criticised for staying on its feet

Glimpse of Herschel’s power

Lift-off for NASA lunar probes

LRO & LCROSS take NASA back to Moon

How Gas Giants get fat

Shuttle launch delayed until July

Defect in Shuttle tank causing leaks?

Hanks & Howard — Space geeks

High-speed wedge for re-entry tests

Map shows Moon’s shadowed craters

Computer models sunspots

IBEX spots fast hydrogen from Moon

Mystery of missing spots explained?

South coast light display meteors?

Magnetar x-ray eruption

Meteorite clues to Earth’s roots

Noctilucent clouds are back

Why we still love Star Trek

Palomar Transient Factory

Earth-Mars collision possible in 5 bill years

Saturn equinox shows new ring detail

First extra-galactic exoplanet?

NASA’s WISE preparing for Nov 1 launch

Atmospheres key in search for exo-life

Adaptive optics probe distant galaxies

Broken dwarf scarred the Moon?

Galaxy Zoo looks at rotation

Kaguya orbiter crashed into Moon

Twin suns have planet-forming disk

Stretched neutrinos could span Universe

Star birth in galactic centre

Black cloud will be giant star

Remnant is exploded white dwarf?

Betelgeuse is shrinking

Millisec pulsars hide age

Galaxy collision history revealed

Super black holes more massive

Cepheid vars 3x increase in measuring

Dark GRBs illuminate star formation

New milestone to measure expansion

Supernova had carbon origins?

Space rocks turned tide for Earth

Distant world circles tiny star

Space storm’s epicentre found

A new kind of cloud?