Astronomy News

P33 Aug 8, 2008

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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