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HIGHLIGHTS 2005
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December 2005
Dec 28 [Harvard] Chandra Looks Back At The Earth
Dec 25 [ESO] The Cosmic Christmas Ghost. Two Stunning Pictures of Young Stellar Clusters
Dec 22 [Berkeley] Keck telescope captures faint new ring around Uranus
Dec 22 [ESO] ALMA on the Move. ESO Awards Important Contract for the ALMA Project
Dec 22 [STScI] Discovery of new rings and moons around Uranus
Dec 21 [NOAO] Flashes from the Past: Echoes from Ancient Supernovae
Dec 21 [ESO] Allo, Allo? A Star is Ringing. VLT Helps Measuring Tortoise-like Motion
Dec 21 [JPL] NASA Prepares for Return of Interstellar Cargo
Dec 20 [UCLA] Clearest images of the center of the Milky Way using a new laser virtual star
Dec 20 [Keck] Two organic compounds - acetylene and hydrogen cyanide - found within the inner regions of a planet-forming disk
Dec 19 [NRAO] Astronomers Gain Clues About Fundamental Physics
Dec 15 [PPARC] The Cosmic Shredder and the Magnetar
Dec 14 [ESO] Witnessing the Flash from a Black Hole's Cannibal Act. Short Gamma-Ray Burst Confirms Formation Scenario
Dec 13 [STScI] Accurate determination of the mass of the White Dwarf Sirius B
Dec 12 [Berkeley] Hundreds of auroras detected on Mars
Dec 07 [ESO] ESO Signs Largest-Ever European Industrial Contract For Ground-Based Astronomy Project ALMA
Dec 06 [NOAO] Galaxy Collisions Dominate the Local Universe
Dec 06 [ESA] XMM-Newton Mission Extension Approved
Dec 06 [ESA] INTEGRAL Mission Extension Approved
Dec 05 [PPARC] Probing Titan's secrets with Huygens
Dec 05 [PPARC] MARSIS reveals details on the hidden depths of Mars - UK comment
Dec 01 [Harvard] Chandra Proves Black Hole Influence is Far Reaching
November 2005
Nov 30 [ESO] The Dwarf that Carries a World. HARPS Instrument Finds Neptune-Mass Exoplanet Around Small Star
Nov 29 [Harvard] NASA Scientists Witness a Supernova Cosmic Rite of Passage
Nov 28 [PPARC] Near Earth Objects - what lies ahead?
Nov 24 [ESO] Sharp Vision Reveals Intimacy of Stars. AMBER instrument on VLTI Probes Environment of Stars
Nov 17 [STScI] Identification of 19 new gravitational lenses among which are 8 Einstein rings
Nov 15 [CalTech] Beautiful Chaos of Star Birth
Nov 09 [ESO] Star on the Run - Speeding Star Observed with VLT Hints at Massive Black Hole
Nov 09 [CalTech] Spitzer Captures Cosmic Mountains of Creation
Nov 04 [ESO] Cosmic Portrait of a Perturbed Family
Nov 02 [Harvard] Neutron Star Discovered Where a Black Hole Was Expected
Nov 02 [CalTech] Scientists See Light that May Be from First Objects in Universe
Nov 02 [NRAO] Sgr A* - new measurements show its size to be as less as 1 astronomical unit.
October 2005
Oct 31 [STScI] Two possible new moons orbiting Pluto
Oct 20 [CalTech] NASA's Spitzer Finds Failed Stars May Succeed in Planet Business
Oct 19 [STScI] Search for important oxygen-bearing minerals on the Moon
Oct 17 [ESO] NGC 1097 - New images show complex filamentary structures spiralling down to the central supermassive black hole
Oct 13 [NAOJ] A Galactic Space Halo - NGC 2403
Oct 13 [CSIRO] Telescope bigger than Earth nets international award
Oct 13 [Harvard] Stars Form Surprisingly Close to Milky Way's Black Hole
Oct 06 [ESO] First time observation of the visible light from a short gamma-ray burst
Oct 05 [Harvard] In a Flash, NASA Helps Solve 35-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery
Oct 04 [Harvard] NASA Space Observatories Glimpse Faint Afterglow of Nearby Stellar Explosion
Oct 03 [Keck] Moon Discovered Orbiting 10th Planet
September 2005
Sep 30 [CalTech] Tenth Planet Has a Moon
Sep 29 [Keck] NASA Takes Giant Step Toward Finding Earth-Like Planets
Sep 29 [ESO] Image of spiral galaxy NGC 1350
Sep 27 [CalTech] NASA Finds 'Big Baby' Galaxies in Newborn Universe
Sep 25 [ESO] Inauguration of the sub-millimetre APEX telescope in the Atacama Desert (Chile)
Sep 22 [ESO] Discovery of a large population of distant galaxies that were formed between 9 and 12 billion years ago
Sep 22 [Harvard] Tycho's Remnant Provides Shocking Evidence for Cosmic Rays
Sep 22 [NOAO] SOAR Telescope First to Observe and Measure Distance to Massive Explosion
Sep 20 [STScI] The blue light around the supermassive black hole in the Andromeda galaxy is coming from a disk of hot young stars
Sep 15 [Keck] 'Deep Impact': Mauna Kea's Giant Eyes Reunite Comet Families
Sep 14 [ESA] Gamma observations of a high energy source near the central black hole Sgr A*
Sep 14 [ESO] Discovery of a bright quasar without host galaxy on the edge of a bright cloud
Sep 12 [ESO] GRB 050904 - the farthest known Gamma-Ray Burst with redshift 6.3 (distance 12.7 billion light years)
Sep 08 [Gemini] Is the surprisingly high abundance of dust orbiting an old white dwarf caused by the debris of a planet?
Sep 07 [STScI] Ceres, the largest asteroid, may be a mini-planet with large amounts of water ice beneath its surface
Sep 07 [CalTech] NASA's Spitzer and Deep Impact Build Recipe for Comet Soup
Sep 01 [SALT] 'First-Light' for Africa's Giant Eye: First Colour Images from SALT
August 2005
Aug 31 [NRAO] Fastest Pulsar Speeding Out of Galaxy
Aug 31 [NAOJ] Circumstellar Disk Cradles Young Massive Star
Aug 31 [STScI] Hubble Space Telescope - one of the three operational gyroscopes was shut down
Aug 26 [ISAS] Scientific Observation Has Began with Hard X-ray Detector aboard Suzaku - Detection of hard X-rays from the massive black-hole in Centaurus A
Aug 24 [ESO] Type Ia supernova SN 2005df in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1559
Aug 23 [Harvard] Six Years Into Its Mission, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Continues to Achieve Scientific Firsts
Aug 11 [ESO] Rubble-Pile Minor Planet Sylvia and Her Twins - VLT NACO Instrument Helps Discover First Triple Asteroid
Aug 10 [Gemini] The spiral galaxy NGC 300 has a large disk of extremely faint ancient stars, enlarging its known diameter
Aug 03 [CalTech] NASA's Spitzer Finds Hidden, Hungry Black Holes
Aug 01 [ESO] Moving Closer to the Grand Spiral - VLT Enables Most Accurate Distance Measurement to Spiral Galaxy NGC 300
July 2005
Jul 29 [Gemini] The '10th Planet' has a Pluto-like surface
Jul 28 [CalTech] Spitzer Finds Life Components in Young Universe
Jul 27 [Harvard] NASA's Chandra Neon Discovery Solves Solar Paradox
Jul 20 [Gemini] Dustiest Star Could Harbor a Young Earth
Jul 14 [ESO] Comet Tempel 1 Went Back to Sleep - Astronomers Having Used ESO Telescopes Start Analysing Unique Dataset on the Comet Following Deep Impact Mission
Jul 14 [ESO] New Sub-Millimetre Light in the Desert - APEX telescope Sees First Light at Chajnantor
Jul 13 [Keck] World With Triple Sunsets Discovered
Jul 06 [NAOJ] Solid State Laser for Subaru Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
June 2005
Jun 30 [ESO] Einstein Ring in Distant Universe - Astronomers Using the VLT Discover Bright Cosmic Mirage Far Away
Jun 30 [NAOJ] A Massive-Core Hot Planet is Discovered
Jun 24 [NRAO] First Stages of Planet-Building Around Nearby Star
Jun 13 [Keck] First Rocky Planet Found Outside the Solar System
Jun 09 [ESO] Ultra-fast Movies of the Sky - Astronomers Commission New High-Speed Camera on the Very Large Telescope
Jun 09 [CalTech] NASA's Spitzer Captures Echo of Dead Star's Rumblings
Jun 06 [Harvard] Astronomers Find New Evidence for the Violent Demise of Sun-Like Stars
Jun 01 [NRAO] 3C 273 - is the twisted-magnetic-field quasar jet model wrong?
May 2005
May 31 [CSIRO] Double pulsar puts Einstein to the test
May 31 [Keck] Hot on the Trail of Nature's Exotic Flashers
May 30 [ESO] Preparing for the Impact - ESO Telescopes Take Snapshot of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 in Readiness for Major Observation Campaign
May 30 [CalTech] Spitzer Captures Fruits of Massive Stars' Labors
May 30 [Harvard] NASA Sees Orbiting Stars Flooding Space with Gravitational Waves
May 30 [Keck] Andromeda Three Times Bigger in Diameter than Previously Thought
May 26 [NAOJ] Hypernova Reveals Hidden Identity As Gamma-Ray Burst
May 25 [Harvard] NASA's Chandra Finds That Saturn Reflects X-rays From Sun
May 11 [Keck] Infrared Flash Challenges Old Notion of Nature's Biggest Bang
May 10 [Harvard] Planetary Protection: X-ray Super-Flares Aid Formation of "Solar Systems"
April 2005
Apr 30 [ESO] Yes, it is the Image of an Exoplanet - Astronomers Confirm the First Image of a Planet Outside of Our Solar System
Apr 28 [Harvard] "Wonderful" Star Reveals its Hot Nature
Apr 22 [ESO] The Blob, the Very Rare Massive Star and the Two Populations. Striking Image of Nebula N214C taken with ESO's NTT at La Silla
Apr 22 [ESA] Hot spots on neutron stars
Apr 20 [NAOJ] Silhouette Reveals Hidden Shape of Young Star's Envelope
Apr 20 [CalTech] Signs of Alien Asteroid Belt
Apr 19 [Harvard] Cosmic Shell-Seekers Find a Beauty
Apr 13 [NAOJ] Discovery of the Most Metal-deficient Star Ever Found: Studying Nucleosynthesis Signatures of the First Stars
Apr 11 [NRAO] Scientists Track Collision of Powerful Stellar Winds
Apr 08 [Harvard] Galaxy Clusters, Near and Far, Have a Lot in Common
Apr 07 [Harvard] Concentrated Dark Matter at the Cores of Fossil Galaxies
Apr 07 [ESO] Is this a Brown Dwarf or an Exoplanet? New Young Sub-stellar Companion Imaged with the VLT
Apr 07 [NRAO] Old Star's 'Rebirth' Gives Astronomers Surprises
Apr 06 [Harvard] Era of Galaxy and Black Hole Growth Spurt Discovered
Apr 02 [Keck] First Stars in Distant Galaxies
March 2005
Mar 23 [Cornell] For first time, light is detected from two confirmed planets orbiting stars outside our solar system
Mar 22 [ESO] Young and Exotic Stellar Zoo. ESO's Telescopes Uncover Super Star Cluster in the Milky Way
Mar 22 [Harvard] X-rays Signal Presence of Elusive Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
Mar 15 [ESO] A Tale of Two Populations. VLT FLAMES Finds Hints of Helium-Richest Stars Ever Seen
Mar 14 [ESO] VLTI First Fringes with Two Auxiliary Telescopes at Paranal. World's Largest Interferometer with Moving Optical Telescopes on Track
Mar 11 [ATNF] Hassled galaxy thriving on chaos
Mar 09 [STScI] Hubble Weighs in on the Heaviest Stars in the Galaxy
Mar 07 [ESA] Jupiter: A cloudy mirror for the Sun?
Mar 03 [ESO] Undercover Stars Among Exoplanet Candidates. Very Large Telescope Finds Planet-Sized Transiting Star
Mar 03 [NRAO] Super-Sharp Radio 'Vision' Measures Galaxy's Motion in Space
Mar 02 [ESO] Surprise Discovery of Highly Developed Structure in the Young Universe. VLT and XMM-Newton Together Discover Earliest Massive Cluster of Galaxies
Mar 02 [NRAO] Astronomers Detect Powerful Bursting Radio Source: Discovery Points to New Class of Astronomical Objects
Mar 02 [Harvard] Chandra Probes High-Voltage Auroras on Jupiter
Mar 01 [ESA] Newly Seen Force May Help Gravity in Star Formation
Mar 01 [CalTech] NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Exposes Dusty Galactic Hideouts
February 2005
Feb 24 [ESO] Another Look at an Enigmatic New World. VLT NACO Performs Outstanding Observations of Titan's Atmosphere and Surface
Feb 24 [NAOJ] Young Star's Companion Has Only Forty Times the Mass of Jupiter
Feb 23 [PPARC] Seeing the invisible - first dark galaxy discovered?
Feb 23 [ESA] Black Holes in a radar trap
Feb 21 [ESO] ESO's Two Observatories Merge
Feb 18 [NRAO] Mysterious Magnetar Yielding Secrets to VLA
Feb 16 [Keck] Images of Titan before third Cassini fly-by
Feb 16 [NAOJ] Galaxy Clusters Formed Early
Feb 16 [STScI] Saturn's Auroras Defy Scientists' Expectations
Feb 15 [Harvard] NASA Observatory Confirms Black Hole Limits
Feb 14 [Keck] Afterglow from Two 'Swift' Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected
Feb 09 [NRAO] Radio Telescopes Save Data on Titan's Winds
Feb 07 [CalTech] Astronomers Discover Beginnings of 'Mini' Solar System
Feb 04 [Keck] Saturn's Strange Hot Spot
Feb 02 [Harvard] Lost and Found: X-ray Telescope Locates Missing Matter
January 2005
Jan 28 [ATNF] Magnetic mystery solved
Jan 26 [ESA] SMART-1's first images from the Moon
Jan 19 [ESO] Weighing the Smallest Stars. VLT Finds Young, Very Low Mass Objects Are Twice As Heavy As Predicted
Jan 13 [Gemini] Dusting for Clues: Gemini Discovers Evidence for Colliding Bodies in Planet Forming Disk
Jan 13 [ESO] building Spiral Galaxies. Major Observing Programme Leads to New Theory of Galaxy Formation
Jan 13 [Keck] DIVINING THE SOURCE OF THE WATER-FOUNTAIN NEBULA
Jan 12 [NRAO] Dwarf Galaxy Gives Giant Surprise
Jan 12 [AAO] Galaxy patterns reveal missing link to Big Bang
Jan 12 [UArizona] FUSE Observations Strengthen White Dwarf Theory
Jan 12 [CalTech] Spitzer Finds Stellar 'Incubators' with Massive Star Embryos
Jan 12 [NRAO] Star Cluster Buzzing With Pulsars
Jan 12 [NRAO] Blazar Jets Push Closer to Cosmic Speed Limit
Jan 12 [Keck] KECK LASER CAPTURES NEW VIEW OF DISTANT COLLIDING GALAXIES
Jan 11 [UArizona] Steward Observatory Mirror Lab Awarded Contract for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Mirror
Jan 11 [UArizona] Astronomers Find Gravity's Signature in Galaxy Distribution
Jan 11 [CalTech] New Clues Found in Ongoing Mystery of Giant Galactic Blobs
Jan 11 [NOAO] Flickering Red Giants a Surprising Find
Jan 10 [ESA] clumps of hot iron gas orbiting around a black hole
Jan 10 [NRAO] VLA Detects Unexplained Radio Emission From Three Brown Dwarfs
Jan 10 [Harvard] Chandra Finds Evidence for Swarm of Black Holes Near the Galactic Center
Jan 10 [CalTech] Spitzer Sees Dusty Aftermath of Pluto-Sized Collision
Jan 10 [STScI] Hubble's Infrared Eyes Home in on Suspected Extrasolar Planet
Jan 10 [Lowell] Astronomers Identify Largest Stars Known
Jan 05 [Harvard] Most Powerful Eruption in the Universe Discovered
Jan 01 [Gemini] Gemini Observatory Welcomes 2005 with Release of Galactic Fireworks Image


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