DISCOVERIES DURING SPRING 2007 AND BEFORE
Gravity Probe B Confirms Space-Time Deformation in General Relativity,
BBC, 16 Apr 2007
NASA Stereo Satellites take first images of Sun, BBC, 2 Mar 2007
Lunar Eclipse of 4 Mar 2007: story and photo links, BBC, 4 Mar 2007
New Horizons Encounters Jupiter, gets Gravity Assist to Pluto,
space.com, 28 Feb 2007
10m South Pole Telescope Studies Echoes of Big Bang in Microwaves,
space.com, 24 Feb 2007
Jets Observed in Comet McNaught, space.com, 26 Feb 2007
ESA Rosetta Probe Flies by Mars for Gravity Assist, BBC, 25 Feb
2007
ESA Rosetta Probe to Search for Martian Rings, BBC, 21 Feb 2007
Themis, NASA Aurora Mission, Goes into Orbit, BBC, 18 Feb 2007
Colliding Stellar Supersonic Winds Produce X-ray Storm, space.com,
16 Feb 2007
Dark Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies Result from Gas Stripping by Big Galaxies,
BBC, 15 Feb 2007
Mirror for James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Completed, BBC, 8 Feb
2007
New Horizons
on You Tube, 7 minute summary of mission operations so far, 2 Feb
2007
Andromeda
Galaxy Involved in Ancient Collision, space.com, 29 Jan 2007
(discovery by grad student!)
New
Horizons
Visits, Gets Gravity Assist from Jupiter Enroute to Pluto, BBC, 19
Jan 2007
Pictures
of
Comet McNaught, Jan 2007, BBC, 11 Jan 2007
Comet
McNaught, brightest comet in 30 years, space.com, 4 Jan 2007
Supersonic
Gales
on Extra-Solar Planets,
BBC, 11 Jan 2007
NASA
Reverses Earlier Decision, Will Service Hubble Space Telescope in 2008,
BBC, 31 Oct 2006
Venus
Express Provides Detail on Super-Rotation in Atmosphere and Volcanoes,
BBC, 11 Oct 2006
Multiple
Universes (warm-up to Black Holes & 5th Dimension talk), Time,
29 Nov 2004
Searching
for the Oldest Galaxies, Time, 27 Aug 2006
Amateur
Astronomers Make Big Contributions to Science , 10 Sep 2006
Mars
Rover
Nears Crater Science Trove , 7 Sep 2006
ESA
SMART-1 Probe Hits Moon to Kick up Dust
``Nearby" Gamma Ray Burst Goes Off, 31 Aug 2006 from CNN
and BBC
Pluto
Reaction to Demotion, 26 Aug 2006
Pluto
Reclassified as Dwarf Planet, 24 Aug 2006
Pluto
Discoverer Would Understand Reclassification, 24 Aug 2006
Polar
Ozone Hole Size Stabilizes, 23 Aug 2006
Astronomers
Find Evidence for Dark Matter via Gravitational Lensing, 21
Aug 2006
Dry
Ice Geysers Discovered on Mars, 21 Aug 2006
Dust
Survives a Supernova Explosion, 18 Aug 2006
Hubble
Observes Faintest Stars Yet, 17 Aug 2006
Light
Pollution Still in Dark Ages, 17 Aug 2006
Deuterium
Plays Hide and Seek Between Stars, 16 Aug 2006