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Big Bear Solar Observatory: The Most Detailed Picture of a Sunspot Ever Recorded

Story contains video Popular Science, Sat August 28, 2010, comments (0)
Researchers at Big Bear Solar Observatory have tuned their adaptive optics array and achieved first light, capturing this image of a sunspot that is now the most detailed ever captured in visible light.



Rich exoplanet system discovered

BBC, Tue August 24, 2010, comments (0)
Astronomers have discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets that orbit a star called HD 10180, which is much like our own Sun.



Mars site may hold buried life

BBC, Fri July 30, 2010, comments (1)
Researchers have identified rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars.



700 new planets discovered by NASA

Toronto Sun, Mon July 26, 2010, comments (0)
NASA's deep-space Kepler probe has found hundreds of new planets — many similar to earth — sparking new hope of life outside our solar system.



Pann-Starrs telescope begins operations to hunt asteroids

BBC, Thu June 17, 2010, comments (0)
A new telescope facility in Hawaii designed to search for asteroids and comets which could threaten Earth has been made operational.



‘Take us to your leader’ - UFO files out

Sideways News, Thu February 18, 2010, comments (0)
The latest instalment of Britain's very own X-Files have revealed an unlikely destination for so-called extraterrestrial visitors - the former home secretary Michael Howard's home.



International Space Station gets new observation deck

BBC, Mon February 15, 2010, comments (0)
Astronauts have successfully installed an extension to the International Space Station in a series of spacewalks.



Avatar’s Pandora possible within years?

Sideways News, Wed December 23, 2009, comments (1)
The concept of life on the moon may currently be limited to sci-fi blockbusters such as James Cameron's Avatar, but a leading astronomer has suggested it could become a reality in just a few years.



NASA’s Chandra X-ray Space Observatory images

Telegraph, Tue November 10, 2009, comments (0)
For the first time an infant neutron star has been been observed (blue dot in the centre of the image).



Hubble’s New Camera Delivers Another Stunner

Wired News, Sat November 07, 2009, comments (3)
The Hubble Space Telescope’s new camera is returning incredibly detailed, stunning images of space.

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