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