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HIGHLIGHTS 2002
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December 2002
Dec 30 [JHU] Volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io spew salt into atmosphere
Dec 19 [STScI] POX 186 - a young blue compact dwarf galaxy is still in development
Dec 18 [ESO] First observations with the infrared interferometer MIDI with two VLT telescopes.
Dec 18 [Keck] Methane Clouds Discovered at the South Pole of Titan
Dec 18 [ESA] Integral's first look at the gamma-ray Universe
Dec 18 [Harvard] Discovery of Giant X-Ray Disk Sheds Light on Elliptical Galaxies
Dec 18 [Harvard] Young Star Cluster Found Aglow With Mysterious X-Ray Cloud
Dec 12 [STScI] Hubble Watches Galaxies Engage in Dance of Destruction
Dec 11 [ESO] Deepest infrared observation reveals extremely distant galaxies
Dec 11 [Harvard] Chandra Reveals Pileup on Cosmic Speedway
Dec 09 [JPL] Featherweight Jupiter Moon is Likely a Jumble of Pieces
Dec 09 [JPL] Ridge Catches Sunset, Lava Spreads in Io Views from Galileo
Dec 03 [STScI] Precise measurement of the mass of the extrasolar planet Gliese 876b
November 2002
Nov 29 [ESO] VLT Interferometer measures the size of Proxima Centauri and other nearby stars.
Nov 25 [ESO] Hot Spot Cosmic Accelerators
Nov 19 [Harvard] Never Before Seen: Two Supermassive Black Holes in Same Galaxy
Nov 18 [STScI] Fast-moving Black Hole indicates origin by a supernova explosion
Nov 13 [Keck] Exceptionally Bright Eruption on Io, Observed with Keck Adaptive Optics, Rivals Largest in Solar System
Nov 07 [Jodrell] New Evidence for Dark Energy in the Universe.
Nov 06 [ESA] XMM-Newton closes in on space's exotic matter
Nov 04 [Jodrell] The Lovell Telescope presents a new face to the Universe.
Nov 01 [Jodrell] Magnetism shapes beauty in the heavens
Nov 01 [JPL] Cassini-Huygens Mission Status
October 2002
Oct 30 [ESO] A Glimpse of the Young Milky Way - VLT UVES Observes Most Metal-Deficient Star Known
Oct 30 [JPL] Ruddy "Freckles" on Europa Suggest 'Lava Lamp' Action
Oct 29 [JPL] Jupiter Orbiter Nears First Visit to Small Moon, Dusty Ring
Oct 23 [ESO] ESO and Chile sign agreement about the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
Oct 22 [Harvard] Dark Matter Reality Check: Chandra Casts Cloud On Alternative Theory
Oct 18 [NRAO] Newly Discovered Clouds Found Floating High Above Milky Way
Oct 16 [ESO] Surfing a Black Hole - Star Orbiting Massive Milky Way Centre Approaches to within 17 Light-Hours
Oct 15 [NOAO] Arc of Blue Stars a Lingering Sign of Shredded Dwarf Galaxy
Oct 15 [JHU] Galaxy Merger Leaves Behind Telltale Blue Arc
Oct 14 [AAO] The infrared imager and spectrograph IRIS2 for the Anglo-Australian Telescope wins an award.
Oct 11 [ESA] Exploding star takes astronomers by surprise
Oct 10 [NOAO] Funding of instrument development for large optical telescopes in return for observing time for U.S. astronomers
Oct 10 [Keck] World's Largest Optical Telescopes Open for Competitive Access
Oct 09 [CNRS] Archeops improves our understanding of the birth of the Universe
Oct 07 [STScI] The Kuiper belt object "Quaoar" with 1300 km diameter has about half the size of Pluto.
Oct 07 [Hawaii] UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII ASTRONOMERS TO DEVELOP NEW TELESCOPES FOR "KILLER ASTEROID" SEARCH
Oct 04 [CSIRO] Mini black hole may help explain massive ones
Oct 03 [Harvard] Chandra Discovers The History Of Black Hole X-Ray Jets
Oct 02 [ESA] Integral - tracking extreme radiation across the Universe
September 2002
Sep 29 [NAOJ] Aging Star Has "Bullets" and "Horns"
Sep 26 [JPL] Huygens stepped flawlessly through a test run
Sep 26 [ESO] Test of the VLT interferometer: successful combination of light beams from all 4 telescopes
Sep 19 [STScI] Optical and x-ray observations indicate how shock waves and jets are created in the Crab pulsar
Sep 19 [Harvard] Space Movie Reveals Shocking Secrets Of The Crab Pulsar
Sep 19 [ESA] ESA to search for life, but not as we know it
Sep 17 [STScI] Medium-size black holes in the cores of globular star clusters
Sep 13 [Harvard] Chandra Finds Surprising Black Hole Activity In Old Galaxies
Sep 11 [STScI] NASA announces contract for the Next Generation Space Telescope
Sep 06 [NOAO] Science Workshop Reveals Evolving Perspective on Asteroid Threat
Sep 05 [STScI] A Wheel within a Wheel
Sep 04 [ING] A SHARPER LOOK AT NEAR EARTH ASTEROID 2002 NY40
August 2002
Aug 29 [Harvard] Most powerful X-ray telescope marks third anniversary
Aug 28 [ESA] No rest on the way to the most mysterious of Saturn's moons
Aug 23 [ESO] Heavy Stars Thrive among Heavy Elements - VLT Observes Wolf-Rayet Stars in Virgo Cluster Galaxies
Aug 21 [NOAO] Digital Movie Shows Awesome Speed of Asteroid Close Approach
Aug 08 [NAOJ] Subaru Discovers an Exploding Galaxy at the Edge of the Universe
Aug 01 [Lowell] Pluto's Atmosphere Changing!
Aug 01 [ESO] Disks around Failed Stars - a Question of Age: First Ground-Based Mid-Infrared Observations of Brown Dwarfs
Aug 01 [NRAO] Scientists Detect "Smoking Gun" of Colliding Black Holes
Aug 01 [STScI] Hubble Astronomers Feast on an Interstellar Hamburger
July 2002
Jul 29 [NAOJ] Japan and United Kingdom begin new collaboration in infrared astronomy
Jul 24 [PPARC] Ultracam - an ultra-fast camera on the 4.2-m William Herschel telescope on La Palma
Jul 09 [ESA] Is the Universe older than expected?
Jul 08 [ESO] Heavens Open Up for UK Astronomers.
Jul 08 [ESO] GIRAFFE - "First Light" for a new spectrograph on the VLT
Jul 03 [STScI] Colorful Fireworks Finale Caps a Star's Life
June 2002
Jun 27 [Jodrell] Discovery of the "Bulls-Eye" Pulsar
Jun 26 [ESO] Young Stars in Old Galaxies - a Cosmic Hide and Seek Game: Surprise Discovery with World's Leading Telescopes.
Jun 20 [Jodrell] Water Fountains in the Sky: Streaming Water Jets from Aging Star Provide Clues to Mystery of Planetary-Nebula Formation
Jun 19 [NRAO] Water Fountains in the Sky: Streaming Water Jets from Aging Star Provide Clues to Mystery of Planetary-Nebula Formation
Jun 13 [STScI] Beauty in the Eye of Hubble
Jun 12 [AAO] New found planetary system starts to look like home
Jun 05 [NRAO] Supermassive Black Hole Mimics Smaller Cousins
Jun 05 [STScI] Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business - New Images Released
Jun 03 [NOAO] Black Hole Mass Boundary Drops Lower With Two New Lightweights
Jun 03 [Hawaii] The Case of the Missing Berryllium
Jun 03 [NRAO] Binary Stars "Flare" With Predictable Cycles, Analysis of Radio Observations Reveals
Jun 03 [NOAO] Star Cluster with Surprising Similarities to Sun's Composition Offers Clues on Milky Way Evolution
May 2002
May 28 [JPL] Final Looks at Jupiter's Moon Io Aid Big-Picture View
May 23 [Jodrell] A New Picture of the Early Universe.
May 23 [Jodrell] Youngest Radio Pulsar Revealed with the Green Bank Telescope.
May 21 [NOAO] Closest Brown Dwarf Companion Ever Spotted Around a Star Provokes New Perspective on Formation of Low-Mass Objects
May 20 [Hawaii] Astronomers Ponder the Nature of an Ultracool Object in Orion
May 17 [AAO] Gamma-Ray Burst mystery solved: exploding stars the culprit
May 16 [Hawaii] New Satellites of Jupiter
May 16 [Armagh] Global Telescope to Observe Ringing Star
May 15 [ESO] Ultrabass Sounds of the Giant Star xi Hya - First Observations of Solar-type Oscillations in a Star Very Different from the Sun.
May 15 [Hawaii] New Light on the Darkest Dwarfs
May 13 [PPARC] Cannibalistic Stars hold clue to Big Bang
May 09 [STScI] Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze
May 07 [ESO] Infrared Images of an Infant Solar System - ESO Telescopes Detect a Strange-Looking Object.
May 02 [JPL] Teenage Stars: Rebels Without a Known Cause
April 2002
Apr 30 [STScI] Hubble's New Camera Delivers Breathtaking Views of the Universe
Apr 26 [ESA] ESA finds a black-hole flywheel in the Milky Way
Apr 24 [STScI] Hubble Uncovers Oldest "Clocks" in Space to Read Age of Universe
Apr 17 [STScI] Hubble Hunts Down Binary Objects at the Fringe of Our Solar System
Apr 17 [AAO] Presentations to mark the end of 2dF redshift survey observing
Apr 15 [NRAO] Scientists Discover Antifreeze in Space, Warming Theories on How and Where Life Begins
Apr 15 [NAOJ] Discovery of Huge Gas Cloud Expanding around Galaxy
Apr 15 [NRAO] Youngest Radio Pulsar Revealed with Green Bank Telescope
Apr 11 [AAO] 'Dark Matter' can't be all neutrinos, Galaxy survey shows
Apr 11 [Keck] Evidence for Young Planets Found in Dusty Orbits Around Nearby Star
Apr 10 [RAS] Neutrino properties derived from large scale galaxy distribution
Apr 10 [Harvard] Neutron stars or quark stars ??
Apr 09 [STScI] Hubble Astronomer Creates Spectacular Galaxy Collision Visualization for the National Air and Space Museum
Apr 09 [ESO] An extremly distant cluster of galaxies at redshift 4.1
Apr 05 [RAS] Flares Illuminate the Secret Life of a Quiescent Black Hole
Apr 05 [ESA] New study reveals twice as many asteroids as previously believed
Apr 04 [STScI] A Galaxy That's All Wound Up
Apr 04 [ESA] GRB 011211: X-ray observation confirms supernova hypothesis for gamma-ray bursts
March 2002
Mar 28 [Harvard] X-ray emission from the three most distant quasars indicates supermassive black holes already in the early universe
Mar 21 [AAO] New evidence that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating
Mar 15 [ESO] The fastest binary star known - two hot white dwarfs with an orbital period of five minutes
Mar 13 [Harvard] Quasar pair seems to be no illusion but made up of distinct objects
Mar 11 [NRAO] Again age discrepancy - pulsar much younger than rotation rate indicates
Mar 07 [JPL] New simple instrument for the search of extrasolar planets
Mar 07 [JHU] "Color of the universe" corrected: not turquoise but beige
Mar 06 [STScI] Colliding gas streams around the young star LL Orionis (Hubble Heritage Project)
Mar 06 [JHU] A new guidance system brings FUSE back to scientific observations
Mar 06 [Hawaii] Galaxy's Light Pushes Back Dark Ages of the Universe
Mar 01 [JPL] Mars Odyssey: First results, possible identification of significant amounts of frozen water
Mar 01 [Lowell] Optical Telescope Array Now Counts Six!
February 2002
Feb 28 [ESA] COROT - mission to search for rocky planets around other stars
Feb 27 [Harvard] Pulsating hot spot of x-rays in the polar regions of Jupiter
Feb 27 [JPL] Solar Wind Buffets Vast Jupiter Region
Feb 21 [NAOJ] Near-infrared view of Uranus and its ring system
Feb 20 [NASA] International Space Station: Crew completes first spacewalk without Space Shuttle
Feb 20 [JHU] A shorter path to Pluto
Feb 20 [NASA] International Space Station: Strange odor on board
Feb 19 [RAS] First discovery of afterglow of short Gamma-Ray Bursts
Feb 19 [JPL] Mars Odyssey has begun its science mapping mission
Feb 15 [STScI] A new instrument package will improve Hubble's vision
Feb 15 [ESA] Observation of dust ring around the Solar System helps in search for extrasolar planets
Feb 14 [CSIRO] Astronomers find star stretched to bursting point
Feb 14 [ATNF] Millisecond pulsar deformes its bloated red companion star
Feb 14 [NASA] STS-109: After two years of maintenance Space Shuttle Columbia will return into orbit
Feb 11 [JPL] Cassini collected data in search for gravitational waves.
Feb 08 [NASA] International Space Station: Science experiments and preparation for spacewalk
Feb 08 [UArizona] The biosphere of Jupiter's moon Europa might offer several niches for the evolution of life
Feb 08 [UMD] Deep Impact mission took next step toward a collision with comet Tempel 1
Feb 07 [STScI] NGC 4622 - a galaxy rotating in the wrong direction (Hubble Heritage Project)
Feb 07 [ESO] New home for staff and visitors at the VLT Observatory
Feb 06 [CfA] Distant quasar with an enormous x-ray jet
Feb 06 [JPL] Mars Odyssey deployed its high-gain communications antenna.
Feb 05 [NASA] Surprising: a rare series of nearly identical solar flares
Feb 05 [NASA] HESSI spacecraft safely reaches orbit
Feb 04 [NASA] International Space Station: Unexpected computer shutdown
January 2002
Jan 31 [ESO] Sharp images of Saturn and Io with new adaptive optics facility at the VLT.
Jan 31 [RAS] HESSI will be launched next week
Jan 31 [NASA] The end of the ultraviolet astronomy satellite EUVE.
Jan 30 [JPL] Mars Odyssey reached its final mapping orbit.
Jan 29 [JHU] Before its comet mission the CONTOUR spacecraft has thorougly to be tested.
Jan 29 [NASA] STS-109: Shuttle Columbia on launch pad for the Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
Jan 28 [ESO] FLAMES - a new spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope on Paranal.
Jan 25 [ESO] New, high-resolution image of the Horsehead Nebula.
Jan 25 [NASA] International Space Station: Expedition Four Crew completes second spacewalk.
Jan 24 [JPL] Stardust completed a critical maneuver on its path to comet Wild-2.
Jan 24 [JPL] Simulation of rotating black holes by supercomputers.
Jan 23 [GSA] New dust model: the impact of a medium-sized asteroid may not cause a global catastrophe.
Jan 22 [NASA] New flight record: the TIGER balloon experiment in search of the origin of cosmic rays completes two orbits around the South Pole.
Jan 18 [UNSW] Jupiter as a typical example of large planets around other stars.
Jan 18 [JPL] Galileo is back from standy mode but missed closest approach to Io.
Jan 18 [NSF] Dedication and First Light of the Gemini South telescope in Chile.
Jan 17 [ESA] Observation of carbonates near old stars sheds doubts on formation history of planets with water.
Jan 17 [UW] Hydrothermal vent plumes may influence the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
Jan 17 [JPL] During approach of Jupiter's moon Io Galileo went into standby mode causeb by the high-radiation environment.
Jan 16 [UMass] Methane-producing microorganisms deep below a site in Idaho show how life could have survived below the surface of Mars.
Jan 16 [NAOJ] First spectroscopic observations with Subaru's adaptive optics.
Jan 15 [JPL] Farewell to Io. Galileo will pay a last visit to a restless moon.
Jan 14 [UArizona] International project to core 1.8 kilometers into the Chicxulub crater.
Jan 13 [FlaToday] Search for hazardous near-earth asteroids shall increase the alert time.
Jan 11 [JPL] Mars Odyssey concludes the aerobraking phase.
Jan 10 [NRAO] Vastly improved radio image of the Orion Nebula.
Jan 10 [NASA] Advanced space telescopes might soon probe far-off worlds for the chemical signatures of alien life.
Jan 10 [ESA] New superconducting camera (S-cam) shall revolutionise the way astronomers observe the Universe
Jan 10 [JHU] Mean optical spectrum of 200.000 2dF-galaxies: the "color of the universe".
Jan 10 [NOAO] Detailed new images of the nearby galaxy NGC 6822.
Jan 09 [Harvard] X-ray panorama of the central regions of the Milky Way.
Jan 09 [CfA] The "SubMillimeter Array" (SMA)now operational with 4 out of 8 antennas.
Jan 08 [OhioU] Magnetic "bubbles" may be key force in galaxy clusters.
Jan 08 [JHU] Ancient supernova may have triggered eco-catastrophe on earth millions of years ago.
Jan 08 [STScI] Star birth was most rapid in the early universe.
Jan 08 [CfA] First planet detected orbiting a giant star.
Jan 08 [Harvard] Relics of an ancient eruption found in galaxy cluster A 2597.
Jan 08 [CfA] Structure in dust around Vega may be signature of a planet.
Jan 08 [UMass] Spiral galaxies in large galaxy clusters change.
Jan 08 [RAS] The "Eddington" mission shall discover starquakes and Earth-like planets.
Jan 08 [NASA] Newly discovered subclass of Gamma Ray Bursts concentrate in the Supergalactic Plane.
Jan 08 [NASA] Gas jets from young stars are more common than previously thought.
Jan 07 [UTexas] Radioactive decay of elements gives age of stars.
Jan 07 [Lowell] Super-star clusters in 26 dwarf irregular galaxies.
Jan 07 [PSU] Unstable old solar systems could cause dusty white dwarfs and born-again planets.
Jan 07 [UTexas] Transmission of cosmic radiation through planetary atmospheres and its influence on biological evolution..
Jan 07 [UCLA] The "Hercules Deep Field".
Jan 07 [NRAO] Star formation is a longer process than previously thought.
Jan 07 [Rice] New method measures cooling time to measure distance of Gamma-Ray Bursts.
Jan 07 [CfA] Dust can form in hot binary systems within regions where stellar winds collide.
Jan 07 [Cornell] Densitiy of the Galactic Halo was derived from radio observations of the Magellanic Stream.
Jan 07 [CfA] Discovery of an edge-on protoplanetary disk in a quadruple star system.
Jan 07 [NASA] Neutrons move as frictionless superfluid in the interior of pulsars.
Jan 07 [Keck] Brown Dwarf Found Around Nearby, Sun-Like Star
Jan 07 [NASA] Cosmic infrared background brighter as expected.
Jan 07 [Hawaii] Direct imaging of a brown dwarf around nearby sun-like star.
Jan 04 [Jodrell] Upgrade of the Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank
Jan 04 [NRAO] Three new millisecond pulsars in globular cluster M62.
Jan 04 [Keck] Keck Observatory: A virtual star increases the ability of adaptive optics.
Jan 04 [NASA] International Space Station: Tests with the robotic arm.
Jan 03 [STScI] Thackeray's Globules in the star-forming region IC 2944 (Hubble Heritage Project).
Jan 03 [NASA] Balloon-borne experiment TIGER searching for cosmic ray origin.
Jan 02 [NRAO] Helium-3 in Milky Way reveals how much matter was created by the Big Bang.
Jan 01 [Lowell] Astronomers Find Highest-Mass Binary Star Ever Discovered


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