SEPTEMBER
10th Cern LHC start-up
5th - ESA - Rosetta encounters asteroid Steins
AUGUST
SPA Astronomy Weekend details
S. W. Astro-Fair Report & Pictures
O'Dell sent us some teeshirts and caps today we could use for a competition and one of the caps has been signed by 'The Rocket Boys' which gave us an idea ! The competition to win one of these prizes is a Short Story or Photo entitled 'Rocket Boys' ( but it doesn't have to be the actual Rocket Boys). Closing Date is end of August. Entry by email.. click icon below
27th -Summer Holidays Astronomy Hunt - solution up !
27th - PHOENIX - Ice Cold Sunrise on Mars
27th - CASSINI - Image of Janus
27th - NASA -GLAST renamed 'FERMI' and MORE HERE
27th - NASA - Mars Rover Opportunity climbing out of crater
26th - CERN - Final LHC Synchronization Test successful
26th - ESA - Massive discovery made by XMM Newton
26th - Science @NASA - Notilucent clouds from ISS
26th - Cassini - Saturn's Rings & Prometheus
23rd - SPITZER - Multiple generations of cosmic cloud W5
21st - HUBBLE - 'Magnetic Monster in Erupting Galaxy & CHANDRA - image
21st - KECK - Most Black Holes Only Come In Small or Large - article
21st - HIRISE - Image Mars Nili Fossae clays
21st - Science@NASA - 'Living With A Star'- article
19th -ESA - Rosetta tracking Steins asteroid
19th - SDSS - Unusual new denizen of the Solar System
19th - SDSS - Cosmic voids emptied by gravity
19th - Spaceflight Now - New Milky Way map reveals complicated outer galaxy
16th - Astronomy Now -Partial Lunar Eclipse - terrible weather here
15th - Neptune at Opposition - missed due to bad weather
15th - CASSINI pinpoints source of Enceladus jets
15th - PHOENIX microscope takes first image of dust particle
15th - JPL - Earth -Portrait of warming ocean & rising sea levels
14th - James managed to get a photo of the moon and Jupiter between the storms !
14th - Astronomy Now - The Great Pluto Debate Continues -article
14th - NRAO -- Extended Very Large Array news
13th - HIRISE - strange layered deposits
12th - SPACE - Microbes could travel from Venus to Earth - article
12th - Astronomy Now -Perseid Meteor Shower Peak
12th - 'Why Are Our Neighbors So Quiet' - Herald-Mail newspaper article
12th - Science At NASA - LCROSS update
12th - CASSINI - Enceladus update
12th- CERN - LHC synchronization test successful
12th - CERN -LHC start-up date confirmed
11th - HUBBLE - 100,000 orbits -celebratory image
11th - CASSINI - Enceladus flyby 9th - Astronomy Now - Solar System In its Place - article
9th - SOHO - Spurting Spicules
8th - CERN announces start-up date for LHC (September 10th - BBC to transmit)
8th - SETI - Martian Clay shows water once abundant
8th - Astronomy Now - Milky Way Dark Matter Clumps & Streams - article
8th - OLYMPICS begin
7th - Spaceflight Now -Jupiter & Saturn full of liquid metal helium - article
7th - SPITZER - Star birth spike
6th - STARCHASER - Space4schools Event success
6th - PHOENIX update on results so far
6th - CHANDRA - M87
6th - HUBBLE - Globular Clusters and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxy
6th - Cosmic Ghost found by Galaxy Zoo volunteer - article
5th - ROSETTA tracking asteroid Steins
2nd - SOHO - Solar Eclipse - wow !
1st - Jim got some great pics of the Partial Eclipse and HERE
1st - PHOENIX - Martian Water found |
