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HIGHLIGHTS 2006
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August 2006
Aug 25 [BBC] Controversy about the new IAU definition of 'planet'
Aug 24 [IAU] IAU Resolution: Definition of a Planet in the Solar System - Pluto is no longer a planet
Aug 23 [BBC] NASA names new spacecraft 'Orion'
Aug 23 [NRAO] Discovery of a highly unusual magnetar emitting radio pulses
Aug 23 [BBC] Anousheh Ansari was confirmed as next space tourist to the ISS
Aug 23 [JPL] Do supermassive black holes in the center of big elliptical galaxies shut down star formation?
Aug 21 [Harvard] Observations of a collision of two large clusters of galaxies provide the strongest evidence yet that dark matter exists.
Aug 21 [BBC] Japanese businessman Daisuke Enomoto failed the medical test and will not fly as a space tourist to the ISS.
Aug 18 [NASA] STS-115: The launch countdown for Space Shuttle Atlantis will begin on Aug 24
Aug 18 [NASA] NASA Selects Crew and Cargo Transportation to Orbit Partners
Aug 17 [ESO/MPG] Discovery of rapidly forming, large proto-disc galaxies only three billion years after the big bang
Aug 16 [IAU] The IAU draft definition of 'planet' and 'plutons'
Aug 10 [ESO] Stars Too Old to be Trusted? A possible Stellar Solution to the Cosmological Lithium Problem
Aug 08 [Harvard] Chandra Independently Determines Hubble Constant
Aug 07 [NRAO] Researchers Use NRAO Telescope to Study Formation Of Chemical Precursors to Life
Aug 04 [ESO] The 'Planemo' Twins. Astronomers Discover Double Planetary Mass Object
Aug 03 [ESO] A Sub-Stellar Jonah. Brown Dwarf Survives Being Swallowed
Aug 01 [Berkeley] New images of Jupiter's red spots
July 2006
Jul 31 [Berkeley] Mars' dust storms may produce peroxide snow
Jul 27 [JPL] Cassini Finds Lakes on Titan's Arctic Region
Jul 26 [ESO] Island Universes with a Twist. VLT Images of Perturbed Galaxies
Jul 25 [MPG] Old pulsars do not have polar hot spots. Hot spots in younger pulsars may be produced from heat within the pulsars.
Jul 24 [JPL] Planet-Forming Disks Might Put the Brakes on Stars
Jul 21 [ESO] Looking Deep with Infrared Eyes. First data release from UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey
Jul 19 [MPG] Nuclear explosion on a dead star. Astronomers probe the aftermath of a giant outburst of RS Ophiuchi
Jul 19 [NRAO] 'Special Case' Stellar Blast Teaching Astronomers New Lessons About Cosmic Explosions
Jul 18 [ESO] Towards a European Extremely Large Telescope. ESO sets-up ELT Project Office
Jul 13 [MPG] First science results of the submillimeter APEX telescope
Jul 03 [ESO] Falling Onto the Dark - Rare Blob Unveiled: Evidence for Hydrogen Gas Falling onto a Dark Matter Clump?
June 2006
Jun 29 [MPG] Cold Gas in the Andromeda Galaxy
Jun 28 [ESO] The Hooked Galaxy - ESO's VLT Image of Supernova in Interacting Galaxy
Jun 20 [BBC] Upcoming new definition of the word 'planet' - what will become of Pluto?
Jun 08 [ESO] The Toucan's Diamond - VLT Image of a Unique Swarm of Stars, 47 Tuc
Jun 06 [Berkeley] Distant ball of dust not dusty enough
Jun 06 [ESO] Do 'Planemos' Have Progeny? Planetary-Mass Objects Found to be Surrounded by Disc
Jun 01 [Harvard] The Case of the Neutron Star With a Wayward Wake
Jun 01 [NASA] The first of three tiny satellites will be tested onboard the International Space Station
May 2006
May 18 [ESO] Trio of Neptunes and their Belt. HARPS Instrument Finds Unusual Planetary System
May 11 [ESO] Twin Explosions In Gigantic Dusty Potato Crisp
May 10 [MPG] Interstellar organic materials in meteorites
May 08 [ESO] Physics in Universe's Youth. With ESO's VLT, Astronomers Find Molecular Hydrogen at Edge of Universe
May 05 [MPIfR] LOFAR - a new radio telescope in Germany
May 01 [NRAO] VLBA Reveals Closest Pair of Supermassive Black Holes
April 2006
Apr 25 [ESO] The Comet With a Broken Heart. VLT Takes Images of Disintegrating Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3
Apr 24 [Harvard] NASA's Chandra Finds Black Holes Are 'Green'
Apr 14 [ESO] The Great Easter Egg Hunt: The Void's Incredible Richness. Huge Astronomical Image of 'Empty Space' Obtained with ESO Telescope
Apr 11 [STScI] Hubble Finds that the 'Tenth Planet' is Slightly Larger than Pluto
Apr 07 [ESO] Cosmic Spider is Good Mother. VLT FORS Image of the Inner Parts of the Tarantula Nebula
Apr 06 [Harvard] Proto Supermassive Binary Black Hole Detected in X-rays
Apr 06 [Berkeley] Blue ring discovered around Uranus
March 2006
Mar 23 [Harvard] NASA's Chandra Finds Evidence for Quasar Ignition
Mar 22 [ESO] The Sun's New Exotic Neighbour. Very Cool Brown Dwarf Discovered Around Star in the Solar Neighbourhood
Mar 15 [STScI] Astronomers Measure Precise Mass of a Binary Brown Dwarf
Mar 15 [ESO] The Cosmic Dance of Distant Galaxies. GIRAFFE at VLT reveals the turbulent life of distant galaxies
Mar 15 [MPG] Did dark matter create the first stars?
Mar 10 [STScI] Hubble's Latest Look at Pluto's Moons Supports a Common Birth
Mar 01 [NRAO] Magnetic Fields Sculpt Narrow Jets From Dying Star
Mar 01 [PPARC] Part-Time Pulsar Yields New Insight Into Inner Workings of Cosmic Clocks
February 2006
Feb 28 [ESO] Cepheids and their 'Cocoons'. Interferometry Helps Discover Envelopes Around Supergiant Stars
Feb 27 [PPARC] Scientists Detect New Kind of Cosmic Explosion
Feb 23 [ESO] Man-made Star Shines in the Southern Sky. First Light for the VLT Laser Guide Star Facility
Feb 23 [ESO] A Blast To Chase. VLT Image of SN 2006X in Spiral Galaxy Messier 100
Feb 22 [STScI] Hubble Confirms New Moons of Pluto
Feb 22 [PPARC] Successful Launch for Japanese Space Telescope
Feb 21 [PPARC] Japanese Space Telescope to survey the Hidden Universe
Feb 20 [PPARC] Dark Matter further challenged by improved modified gravity
Feb 16 [PPARC] Jodrell Bank Astronomers Find New Type of Star
Feb 16 [NRAO] Still-Forming Solar System May Have Planets Orbiting Star in Opposite Directions, Astronomers Say
Feb 15 [ESO] The Invisible Galaxies That Could Not Hide. Metal-Rich Distant Galaxy Found With ESO's VLT
Feb 09 [PPARC] On the Scent of a Pre-Historic Particle Accelerator?
Feb 07 [ESO] How to Steal a Million Stars? VLT Study Reveals Troubled Past of Globular Cluster Messier 12
Feb 03 [Harvard] Detection of Hot Halo Gets Theory Out of Hot Water
Feb 03 [PPARC] K-band Infrared Multi-Object Spectrometer: A New Insight into Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Feb 01 [MPG] New 'planet' 2003 UB313 is larger than Pluto
Feb 01 [Keck] Trojan Asteroid Patroclus: Comet in Disguise?
Feb 01 [Berkeley] Binary asteroid in Jupiter's orbit may be icy comet from solar system's infancy
Feb 01 [PPARC] Discovery of the smallest yet Earth-like planet
January 2006
Jan 25 [PPARC] Square Kilometre Array: World's Largest Telescope
Jan 25 [ESO] It's Far, It's Small, It's Cool: It's an Icy Exoplanet! Distant Planet Brings Astronomers Closer To Home
Jan 25 [STScI] Astronomers Find Smallest Extrasolar Planet Yet Around Normal Star
Jan 19 [NASA] New Horizons - the first mission to Pluto - is under way after a successful launch
Jan 19 [Berkeley] Two new dusty planetary disks may be astrophysical mirrors of our Kuiper Belt
Jan 12 [NRAO] Huge 'Superbubble' of Gas Blowing Out of Milky Way
Jan 12 [NRAO] Astronomers Discover Fastest-Spinning Pulsar
Jan 12 [Berkeley] Astronomers find magnetic Slinky in Orion
Jan 11 [NRAO] Engine's Running, But Where's the Fuel?
Jan 11 [STScI] Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars
Jan 11 [UF] Planet finders use much faster instrument to discover distant planet
Jan 10 [NOAO] Rapidly Spinning Star Vega has Cool Dark Equator
Jan 10 [Keck] Scientists See Better, Fainter with New Keck Laser Guide Star
Jan 10 [Harvard] NASA's Chandra Finds Black Holes Stirring Up Galaxies
Jan 10 [STScI] Monster Black Holes Grow After Galactic Mergers
Jan 09 [Berkeley] Milky Way galaxy is warped and vibrating like a drum
Jan 09 [NOAO] Dissecting Light from Ancient Stellar Explosions
Jan 09 [NOAO] Huge Images Show Majestic Beauty and Violence of Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
Jan 09 [STScI] There's More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye
Jan 09 [STScI] Mystery Solved: High-Energy Fireworks Linked to Massive Star Cluster
Jan 06 [Keck] Grain growth in Orion Nebula protoplanetary disks
Jan 04 [ESO] Measuring the Size of a Small, Frost World. Stellar occultation allows VLT to determine Charon's size and to put upper limit on its atmosphere


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