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First Mirror Cast for the Giant Magellan Telescope Mars This Weekend Some Parts Need More Protecting from Radiation Launcher Caused Cryosat Failure When Did the Earth's Core Separate from its Shell? Binocular Telescope Sees First Light No Winner at the Elevator Competition Venus Express Nearly Ready to Launch Planets Could Be Common Around Brown Dwarfs Middle Latitude Clouds on Titan Are Familiar Final Titan 4 Launches Hubble Gazes At The Moon Mars Will Be Closest on October 29/30 Hurricane Wilma Becomes a Record Setting Cat 5 Future Space Missions Will Explore at Many Levels Cassini's Closeup View of Dione What's Up This Week - Oct 17, 2005 Mid-Latitude Glaciers on Mars Matter Swirling into a Supermassive Black Hole Spiral Galaxy NGC 2403 New Advances for Liquid-Fueled Rockets Spitzer's Portrait of Andromeda Ariane Rocket Blasts Off with Two Satellites Stars Form Near the Heart of the Milky Way Comets Seem to Be Icy Dirtballs Venus Express Meets its Upper Stage New Details About Space Shuttle Successor Life's Building Blocks are Common in Space Expedition 11 Returns to Earth Cryosat Launch Fails Gravity Probe B Wraps Up Observations Early Earth Had Toxic Oceans ESA's CryoSat is Ready for Launch Large Craters on Dione What's that Bright Spot on Titan? Amazingly Sharp Image of a Sunspot Robot Plane Can Find Thermals to Stay Aloft Successful Test of Microbe Detector Gamma Ray Burst Mystery Solved Afterglow of supernova Remnant N132D What's in that Dust Cloud? Great Barrier Reef from Space 10th Planet has a Moon New Crew Arrive at the Space Station Black Holes Can't Hide Forever Ballooning on Mars Keck Can See Planetary Disks Vivid View of Spongy Hyperion Was There a Slushball Earth? Spiral Galaxy NGC 1350 Meteorites Shared the Earth's Early History Universe Favours Three and Seven Dimensions Did a supernova Kill the Mammoths? New Horizons Arrives at Cape Canaveral ESA Picks an asteroid to Move Delta Launches New GPS Satellite Chandra View of Tycho's Remnant Finding the First Stars Mars Express Mission Extended Sweeping View of the Rings NASA Wants Rovers That Can Dig Lunar Soil Brand New Martian Gullies Binary star Baby Picture Halo of Blue stars Around a Black Hole Details About Return to the Moon Temperatures Raised 180 Million Years Ago Ghostly Spokes in the Rings Shoreline Found on Titan Are We Near the Solar Minimum? Leftover Material Caused Bombardment What the Ground Telescopes Saw During Deep Impact Two Weather Satellites About to Launch Tiny Satellite Could Make a Big Difference Rogue Supermassive Black Hole Has No Galaxy Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is Doing Well Early Atmosphere Looked Very Different From Today Fensal-Aztlan Region on Titan Investigation Into One of Mars Express' Instruments The Risk of a Comet Strike is Low Hubble's View of the Boomerang Nebula Solar Storms Can Shift Dangerous Areas in Space Progress 19 Brings Spare Parts to the Station Exotic Life Could Survive on Titan Planets Are Born Quickly Most Distant Explosion Ever Seen Dusty Old star Could Be Feeding From a Dead Planet Full Frame Rhea Radiation on the Moon Future Titan Mission Shield Blasted By Radiation Earth-Like Planets Should Be Easy To Spot Asteroid Ceres Could Have Water Tempel 1's Ingredients Cassini scientists Make New Ring Discoveries Star Gobbles Up Its Friend Pandora Shepherding the Rings Building Life from Star-Stuff Hubble's Neptune Movies Giant South African Telescope Online Rings from the Unlit Side Spirit's Mountaintop View Escaping Pulsar Breaks Speed Records Bright Young stars in Trumpler 14 Massive Stars Have Protoplanetary Disks Too Hubble Working on Only Two Gyros Now Probing the Formation of Galaxy Clusters Searching for Spokes Big Galaxies, Older Stars Cracked Features on Enceladus Are Very Young Will the Universe Expand Forever? Enceladus Compared to the United Kingdom Asteroid Dust Could Influence the Weather South Ozone Hole Returns Spaceships Made from Plastic? Astronomers Look for Help with Cataclysmic Star Saturn's Moon Pan Venus, Jupiter and the Moon Reunited Again Earth's Core Rotates Faster Than Its Crust Our Collision With Andromeda Will Look Like This Titan's Bright Side NASA Says Liquid water Made Martian Gullies Earth's Climate During the Permian Extinction Mystery Pandora Hovers Above the Rings Supernova in Galaxy NGC 1559 Asteroid Close Call Will Be a Gain for Science Proof of Life? Evidence of Our Early Solar System SOHO Gets Its 1,000th Comet Next Shuttle Will Fly in March 2006 Newborn Black Holes The Ends of the Earth Supernova Shockwave Slams into Stellar Bubble Saturn's Rings Have an Atmosphere of their Own Rhea's Southern Pole Predicting Times for Clear Space Weather Sea Ice May Be Increasing in the Antarctic New Look for the Milky Way Xanadu on Titan Filaments and Vortices Cosmonaut Will Break the Record for Spaceflight Mineral Mapper travelling to Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Launched Impressions from Cassini Anti-Hurricanes on Saturn Largest Communications Satellite Launched Static Electricity... in Space Galaxies Could Be Twice as Large Zoë Heads Back to the Desert Triple Asteroid System Discovered Micro Vortices Seen in the Earth's Magnetosphere Tiny Epimetheus Outside the Rings NASA Celebrates Discovery's Return What Does the Milky Way Look Like? Mars Orbiter Ready for Thursday Launch Delays for the Earth's Oxygen Atmosphere Heavy Bombardments Make Homes... for Microbes Trick Plants to Grow on Mars Shuttle Landing Delayed to Tuesday Mars Orbiter Launchs on August 10 Detailed Look at Mimas Discovery and ISS Will Be Visible in the Southeast Astronauts Remember Columbia Crew Space Shuttle Cleared for Landing Massive asteroids Transformed the Earth's Surface Saturn's Eerie Southern Lights Mars Express Preparing to Look Underground Hubble Sees a Field of Galaxies Cassini's Zips Past the Death Star Astronaut Successfully Plucks Out Filler From Shuttle's Belly Spitzer Sees Hidden Black Holes Astronauts Spacewalk to Remove Gap Filler Venus Express Ready to Travel Discovery's Leading Wing Edge is Safe Messenger Swoops Past the Earth Radiation Will Put Human Mars Missions in Jeopardy Bend in the Rings Bright Splat on Rhea Quark-Gluon plasma Created Is Methane Evidence of Life on Mars? Most Accurate Distance to NGC 300 Cassini Finds Active Ice on Enceladus Mimas and Tethys Circling Saturn Branson and Rutan Form New Company Supernova, Before and After Super Climate Simulation Models Oceans, Ice, Land and Atmosphere Ingredients of Life 10 Billion Light-Years Away Build Big by Thinking Small Water Ice in a Martian Crater Greg Olsen Will Fly to Space Martian Fossil Finder in the Works NASA's Prototype Solar Sail Inflates Perfectly Stars Have More Neon Than Previously Believed Einstein's Miraculous Year Prevent the Contamination of Mars Strange Ice Boulders on Enceladus SMART-1's View of Hadley Rille Galaxy's Invisible Arms Revealed Strange Radio Emissions from Saturn Can You Make a Better Glove? The 2005 Perseid Meteor Shower	Universe featuring the cosmos, space and galaxies
	Launch Day for Discovery Deep Impact: Before and After Saturn Disappears Behind the Sun Why Are There Smooth Spots on Eros? Prometheus On the Edge of the Rings Mars Has Been Cold for Billions of Years Next Mars Orbiter Will Launch August 10 New Revelations About the Planet Under Your Feet Discovery Set to Launch Tuesday Morning What's Next for Deep Impact? A Supernova that Won't Fade Away Dusty Disk Could Hide a New Earth Charon Passes in Front of a Star How Millisecond Pulsars Spin So Fast Biggest Star Quake Ever Seen Search for Mars Methane July 26 Targeted for Discovery Launch Melt Through the Ice to Find Life Cyborg Astrobiologist Could Help Find Life on Mars Tethys Glides Past Saturn Oldest Planetary Disk Discovered Pandora and Prometheus Return to Flight Launch Pushed Back at Least a Week Canada's Humble Space Telescope Nicholson Crater on Mars Martian Dust Devils Will Plague Astronauts Cosmic Rays Could Measure time on Earth Discovery Won't Launch Before Sunday Strange White Streak on Titan Comet Tempel 1 Settles Down Again APEX Telescope Sees First Light Cluster Spacecraft Give Each Other Some Room Satellite Can Tell When Ice is Melting Planet Found in Triple Star System Superwinds Seen in Distant Galaxies Malfunctioning Fuel Gauge Delays Shuttle Three Space Telescopes Find a Neutron Star Prometheus Shepherding the Rings Supercomputer Will Study Galaxy Evolution Will We Find Super Earths? Old NASA Equipment Will Be Visible on the Moon Sloan Digital Sky Survey Strange Hyperion Looks Like a Sponge Japanese Astro-E2 Satellite Launched How Much Material Was Blasted Off By Deep Impact? Transit Method Turns Up Planets Deep Impact's Plume Was Bigger Than Expected No, Mars Won't Look as Big as the Moon Shuttle Exhaust Can Make Clouds in Antarctica Microquasar Puzzles Astronomers Seas are Rising Faster than Ever STS-114 Countdown Begins Extremely Large Telescope Takes the Next Step Gemini Sees Rocky Material on Tempel 1 Layers of Minerals Tell the History of Mars Swift's Take on Deep Impact Solar Aircraft to Fly Around the World SOHO Nears 1,000th Comet Discovery Artificial Meat Could Be Grown on a Large Scale Deep Impact Made a Bright Flash Hubble's View of Deep Impact Surprise Deep Impact Smashes Into Tempel 1 Deep Impact Releases Impactor Largest Core in an Extrasolar Planet Positron Drive: Fill 'er Up For Pluto New Method Pinpoints the Age of the Milky Way Rosetta Tunes in Tempel 1 Audio: Interview with Story Musgrave Planets Can Survive a Red Giant Mars Organic Analyzer Passes the Test Deep Impact Sees a Burst from Tempel 1 Is This a Lake on Titan? Spotty Janus X-Rays Sparkle in Saturn's Rings Spacecraft Wakes Up for Comet Collision What's Up This Week - June 27 - July 3, 2005 Electric Shield for Astronauts on the Moon Hubble Sees a Jet on Comet Tempel 1 Making the Mirror for the World's Largest Telescope Satellite View of Istanbul Cebreros is Ready and Listening Planets Under Construction Pan's Influence on the Rings Bumpy Dust Makes Molecular Hydrogen Sea Launch Launches Americas-8 Satellite Mercury, Venus and Saturn New Horizons Prepares to Zoom to Pluto New Form of Matter Created Extrasolar Planet Reshapes Ring Around a Star Natural Particle Accelerator Discovered Mars Express Booms All Deployed First View of Tempel 1's Nucleus Saturn's Ripply F-Ring Planets Will Have time to Form Complex Life Rosetta Set to Watch Deep Impact Progress 18 Docks Star in the Making Early Black Holes Grew Up Quickly 18th Progress Lifts Off Foton-M2 Mission Returns to Earth Second MARSIS Boom Deployed t/Space Drop Tests New Booster Design Discovery Back on the Launch Pad Earth Formed from Melted Asteroids Just How Earthlike is this New Planet? Staring into a Cosmic Jet Neutrino Evidence Confirms Big Bang Predictions Planetary Systems Can Form in Hellish Surroundings Large Rocky Planet Discovered Spitzer View of a Dead Star Deep Impact Nearing its Target Coprates Chasma on Mars Capturing the Fastest Events in the Universe First Aurora Seen on Mars Possible Methane Volcano Discovered on Titan The Search for Positronium Afterlife of a supernova SMART-1 Finds Calcium on the Moon Second Boom Set to Deploy Supernova Remnant N 63A Menagerie Supernova Left No Core Behind Opportunity Rolls Free from the Dune Strange Ozone Hole this Year View Through the Rings Mars Phoenix Mission Prepares for 2007 Launch Observatories Are Calibrating For Deep Impact Following the Dust Trail Recent Blast was Probably a neutron star Collision New Jupiter Mission Moves Forward A Simulation of the Whole Universe Quasar Image Revises Theories About Their Jets Amalthea is Just a Pile of Icy Rubble Ancient Floods on Mars Measuring the Shape of Stars Soyuz Launches Foton-M Spacecraft White Dwarfs in a Death Spiral Monstrous Stars Spawn a Community of Smaller Stars Deep Impact's Target Viewed from Earth Andromeda is Three Times Larger Than Previously Believed Carbon/Oxygen stars Could Explode as Gamma Ray Bursts Shuttle Getting an Upgraded Fuel Tank Dark Spots on the Moon Show a Turbulent solar system Mysterious Spot on Titan Puzzles Astronomers Saturn Reflects X-Rays from the Sun Opportunity Still Working Itself Free from the Sand A Bend in the Rings of Saturn Voyager 1 Enters the Heliosheath Powerful Flare Shook Up Our Understanding of the Sun Cassini Determines the density of Saturn's Rings Rocky Planets Form Further Away Than Previously Thought Amateurs Help Discover Extrasolar Planet Proton Launches DIRECTV Satellite Solar Astronomers Getting Better at Predicting Solar Wind Enceladus Above Saturn's Rings Weather Satellite Launches After Several Delays NASA Competition to Get Air from Lunar Soil Cosmic Rays Cause the Brightest Radio Flashes Actual Photo of Mars Odyssey in orbit Twin Black Holes Churn at the Heart of M83 Dark energy Could be a Breakdown of Einstein's theory Planet Forces its Star's Rotation Asteroid Will Zip Past the Earth in 2029 Amateurs Command Gemini for an Hour B-15 About to Crash Again Deep Impact Still on Target Mystery of Martian Icecaps Explained Probing the Atmosphere of an Extrasolar Planet Testing Strategies to Get Opportunity Unstuck Mosaic of Titan's Surface Titan's Atmosphere is Looking Very Familiar Did Iapetus Consume One of Saturn's Rings? Dione and Tethys First MARSIS Boom Fixed Smallest Ever Coronal Mass Ejection The Birth of a New Black Hole? Mapping Life on Earth Could Predict Finding it on Mars A SWIFT Response to Gamma Ray Bursts New Moon for Saturn Makes Waves in the Rings Shedding light on Dark Gamma Ray Bursters Superflares Might Have Protected the Early Earth Spinning Hyperion Crater Holden and Uzboi Vallis on Mars Deployment of Second MARSIS Boom Delayed Did Phoebe Come from the Outer Solar System? Mars Polar Lander Found? Plankton Bloom in the Bay of Biscay Solar Minimum Doesn't Mean a Calm Sun More Sunlight is Hitting the Earth Artificial gravity Will Help Astronauts Handle Spaceflight Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peaks on May 6 Sombrero Galaxy by Spitzer High Resolution Global Map in Development History of the Earth's Atmosphere Written in Rocks Did Life Arrive Before the solar system Even Formed? Watching Gamma Rays from the Safety of Earth The Earth Through Rosetta's Eyes Next Mars Mission Arrives at the Cape Return to Flight Delayed to July Exoplanet Image Confirmed	Time to Concentrate on Saturn's Rings Deep Impact Has Its Target in View ESA Astronaut Will Visit Station for Months Chandra Sees a Bridge Between Stars Close View of Epimetheus Dust Devils Spotted on Mars Space Elevator Group to Manufacture Nanotubes Strange Dust Cloud Found Around Enceladus Has Spirit Found Bedrock in Columbia Hills? 200,000 Quasars Confirm Einstein's prediction Hydrocarbons High in Titan's Atmosphere DIRECTV Satellite Lofted From Sea Launch Global Warming Could Be Risky for Satellites Too Universe What's Up This Week - Apr 25 - May 1, 2005 Expedition 10 Lands Safely 15 Years of Hubble Hot Spots Seen on Neutron Stars Earthquake Should Show a Gravity Scar This false colour composite image of Titan, Saturn's largest moon Spitzer Discovers Early Galaxy Forming Region Don't Breathe the Moon Dust Solar Wind Flows From Magnetic Funnels on the Sun Nebula N214C located in the neighbouring Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy Aureum Chaos Region on Mars Glimpse at the Envelope of a Young Star Genesis Recovery Proceeding Well Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, April 24 Solar Nebula Lasted 2 Million Years Extreme Life in Yellowstone Gives More Hope for Life on Mars Spitzer Sees an Alien Asteroid Belt Is There Water on the Moon? Perfect Liquid Hints at Early Universe Low Oxygen Accelerated the Great Dying The Search for the Mountain of Eternal Sunlight Problem with Opportunity's Front Wheel Ghostly Supernova Remnant Our Universe - All the latest news this week - Apr 18 - Apr 24, 2005 Ancient Impact Craters Reveal Mars' First Equator DART Mission Ends Prematurely Fundamental Aspect of the Universe Iceberg Smashes Off a Chunk of Antarctica Expedition 11's Soyuz Docks Matter is Incinerated When it Falls into a Black Hole Early Universe Swarmed with Mini Black Holes Michael Griffin Takes the Helm at NASA Expedition 11 Blasts Off for the Station Enceladus Above Saturn's Rings Strange Extrasolar Planet Orbits Explained Mars Science Laboratory Cassini Set for Closest Titan Flyby One of the Earliest Stars Found Testing New Technologies... In Space Torino Scale Revised Sedna Untouched for Millions of Years Galactic Core? Lucky Dip NASA May Silence Voyagers on April 15 Our Universe - All the latest news this week - Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2005 Alien Space Stations Two Massive Stars Orbiting One Another Universal Constant Might Not Be Constant Details of Xanadu Region on Titan Really Big Telescopes are Coming Old Star Reignites its Flame Cosmic Particle Accelerator at the Centre of the Milky Way Is This the First Photo of an Exoplanet? Europe Planning a Mars Rover Mission Gamma Ray Bursts Could Have Led to Extinctions Dark Matter at the Heart of Galaxy Groups Discovery Reaches the Launch Pad Early Galaxy Growth Spurt Spotted Rovers' Contracts Extended a Third Time Sedna Probably Doesn't Have a Moon Cassini Completes Fourth Titan Flyby Light Seen From Earliest Stars Swift Measures the Distance to Two Blasts Searching for Gravity Waves Starburst Galaxies Hide Black Holes How Many Habitable Planets Could Be Out There? Our Universe - All the latest news this week - Apr 4 - Apr 10, 2005 Portrait of Pandora in the Rings Solar Eclipse: April 8, 2005 Earth Seen in Gamma Rays Hubble's View of a Giant Elliptical Galaxy Ultraviolet View of Mimas Kuiper belt Slowing the Pioneer Spacecraft? Proton Launches Russian Communications Satellite Dying Stars Could Provide a Second Chance for Life How Galaxy Collisions Lead to Starbirth Medusa Fossae Region on Mars Milky Way Dwarf Satellite Galaxy Discovered Our Universe - All the latest news this week - Mar 28 - Apr 3, 2005 Spacewalkers Release Mini-Satellite Deep Impact on Target for July Smashup Survey Finds Dark Accelerators Libya's Ubari and Murzuq Sand Seas Asteroid Created a Rain of Rock First Centennial Prizes Announced Greece Joins the ESA Dark Energy Survey Will Study 300 Million Galaxies First Light Seen from an Extrasolar Planet Our Universe - All the latest news this week - Mar 21 - 27, 2005 Seeing the Planks in Einstein's Cross Why Colonize the Moon First? Black Holes Could Contain a Perfect Fluid India and Europe Agree on Lunar Mission Cassini Sees Mimas Eclipse Janus Ripples in Spacetime Could Explain Dark Energy First Global Map of Methane Emissions Many Faces of Hyperion Mars is Still Geologically Active Problem with Opportunity's Mineral Finding Tool Dark Energy in our Galactic Neighbourhood Enceladus has an Atmosphere Robot Finds Life in the Desert Helium-Richest Stars Found Our Universe - All the latest news this week - Mar 14 - 20, 2005 Rover Sees a Dust Devil on Mars Atlas V Lofts Satellite for Inmarsat Probing the Large Scale Structure of the Universe Moon and Jupiter by Bojan Stajcar Black Holes Might Obscure Earliest Times New Theory on Meteor Crater Hubble Helps Discover How Massive Stars Can Get Galaxies in the Early Universe Came in Every Flavour Titan is Similar to Earth in Many Ways Lightning Makes Radiation Belts Safer Where Does Intelligent Life Come From? Jupiter Reflects the Sun's X-Rays Saturn's Twisting Rings Region Around a black hole is Surprisingly Turbulent Our Universe - All the latest news this week - Mar 7 - 13, 2005 Dawn Will Show How Different Two Asteroids Can Be Detector Ready to Receive Beam of Neutrinos Rosetta Photographs the Earth on Flyby New Kind of Object Discovered? Did Clouds in Space Cause Snowball Earth? Sideways Motion of a Galaxy Measured Opportunity Breaks Driving Records Galaxy Headed for a Cosmic Collision Jupiter-Sized Star Found Giant Planets Created Primitive Meteorites Progress Docks with Station Young Star Has Grown Up Quickly Young Universe Was Surprisingly Structured Spitzer Finds Hidden Galaxies Jupiter's Auroras Helped by Io Mini-Detector Could Find Life on Mars Are We Alone? Sea Launch Delivers XM-3 to orbit Supply Ship Blasts Off With Special Camera Our Universe - All the latest news this week - Feb 27 - Mar 6, 2005 Rainbows on Titan Cassini Images Saturn's Radiation Belts Cargo Ship Ready for Liftoff with Station Supplies Saturn Has Oxygen But No Life Panoramic View of Saturn Saturn's Dragon Storm Dr. David J. Tholen Answers Your Asteroid Questions Views of Titan From Earth Gamma Rays Come from the Earth Too Matter Nears Light Speed Entering a Black Hole Dark Matter Galaxy Discovered Jupiter by Paul F. Campbell Frozen Sea of Water Discovered on Mars Smallest Galactic Black Hole Found Our Universe - All the latest news this week - Feb 21 - 27, 2005 Your First Scope! What's Next? Ammonia Key to Titan's Atmosphere Gamma Ray Flare Reaches Across the Galaxy Fastest Spinning Pulsar Found A Dozen New Planets Discovered Close Up on Enceladus Galaxy Clusters Formed Early Saturn's Mysterious Auroras Explained Giant Crater Discovered on Titan What Telescope is Right for You? Titan's Fourth Flyby SMART-1's Mission Extended The Limit of Black Holes Spirit Finds New Rock Affected by Water Centre of Valles Marineris Our Universe - All the latest news this week - Feb 14 - 20, 2005 Safe Havens for Planetary Formation Swift's First Burst Pinpointed Enhanced Ariane 5 Blasts Off Amateur photographer Life Might Have Started in Fresh Water Mighty Ariane 5 Readied for Launch Air Pollution Linked to Growth of Life in Oceans Diamond Worlds Could Exist Black Holes Manage Galactic Growth Death Star Mimas' Herschel Crater What Did Galileo See? Huygens Wind Data Released Northern Saturn is a Little Blue Mini Solar System Around a Brown Dwarf Smallest Extrasolar Planet Found ESA Will Risk Deploying MARSIS This Star is Leaving Our Galaxy more links to the archive