Dec 30
Earth's "adopted" satellites
In the autumn of 2006 a
group of astronomers working
on the Catalina Sky Survey
in Arizona, discovered a
very small asteroid, only a
few
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Dec 28
Improbable traces of
alien life
on the Moon
The possibility of finding
traces of alien life on our
natural satellite is
something that has long been
the realm of the science
fiction
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Dec 23
"Christmas ball" falls from the sky
So what on Earth is the
object we see in this photo?
No-one knows. It's making
the news because it appears
to have fallen from space.
It is a
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Dec 21
The mission to Venus that never was
Every now and again news
items in the field of
astronomy and astronautics
crop up that actually
contain nothing new. This is
the case of
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Dec 19
Comet Lovejoy survives with a zig-zag
It
was taken as a certainty
that comet Lovejoy would be
destroyed as it passed close
to the Sun, but instead it
survived its
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Dec 16
Three probes to Europa in 2020?
The
Jovian satellite Europa is
looking like the prime
target for probes that will
explore the Solar System
over the next decade. NASA
is planning
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Dec 14
Early supermassive black holes
According to the standard
cosmological model, the
supermassive black holes at
the centre of most galaxies
grow as their host
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Dec 12
The gypsum left by Martian water
A new discovery by the Mars
rover Opportunity, presented
a few days ago by Steve
Squyres (Cornell University,
Ithaca) at the American
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Dec 7
A new record for the biggest
black hole
Until recently, the most
massive black hole known was
that at the centre of the
giant elliptical galaxy M87,
at the centre of the Virgo
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Dec 5
A record-breaking Galactic star cluster
On the 20th December an
article will be published in
the Astrophysical Journal
Letters describing the
discovery of the most
massive
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Dec 2
The reddest galaxies in the Universe
A group of researchers from
the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics
(CfA), led by Jiasheng
Huang, have discovered 4
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