Astronomy News:

     Week 12/04/06 -12/10/06:

• "Water 'flowed recently' on Mars"(BBC)
• "Black Hole gulps remote star"(CNN)
• "Budget cuts (Arecibo)"(FOX)
• "Astrophysicists debate anthropic principle"(FOX)
  

         Week 11/27/06 -12/03/06:

• "Probe's close-up of Sun eruption"(BBC)
• "NASA, astronomers mull putting telescope on the Moon"(FOX)
• "Possible black hole sighted"(Astronomy Magazine)
• "'First gamma-ray clock found"(Astronomy Magazine)
  

          Week 11/20/06 -11/26/06:

• "Nasa to decide Hubble 's fate"(BBC)
• "Telescope captures double blast"(BBC)
• "Black hole spins at 950 times per second"(FOX)
• "'Planet' may never be fully defined"(FOX)
• "Giant mexican telescope launched"(BBC)
  

          Week 11/13/06 -11/19/06:

• "Mysterious force's long presence"(BBC)
• "Dark Energy at Least 9 billion years old'"(FOX)
• "Nearby Stars Come Out of Hiding"(FOX)
• "Leonid meteor shower nears peak"(CNN)
• "Dark Energy pushed universe's growth"(CNN)
  

      Week 11/06/06 -11/12/06:

• "Huge 'hurricane' rages on Saturn"(BBC)
• "Telescope catches 'moster flare'"(BBC)
• "Missing-Helium Mystery Solved"(FOX)
• "Hubble, NASA's Comeback Kid"(NyTimes)

       Week 10/30/06 -11/05/06:

• "Small stars created major dust"(Astronomy Magazine)
• "Long live Hubble"(CNN)
• "Galaxy Cluster's Ring Hints at Cosmic Shockwave"(FOX)
• "Sun probe sends back first data"(Astronomy Magazine)

       Week 10/22/06 -10/29/06:

• "Knowing the Universe in Detail (Except for That Pesky 96 Percent of It)"(Nytimes)
• "Sun  Survived Sister Supernova Right Next Door"(FOX)
• "Hubble could soon learn its fate"(CNN)
• "Star ends infancy abruptly"(Astronomy Magazine)

       Week 10/15/06 -10/22/06:

• "'The Boom in Galaxies after the Big Bang"(Nytimes)
• "Colliding Galaxies Caused Dust Ring Within Andromeda"(FOX)
• "Radar Reveals Two Halves of Asteroid Orbiting Each Other"(FOX)
• "Doubt cast on lunar ice deposits"(BBC)

      Week 10/09/06 -10/15/06:

• "'Jupiter's smaller spot getting redder"(CNN)
• "Exoplanet trapped between fire and ice"(CNN)
• "Hubble telescope spots galaxies being gobbled up"(FOX)
• "Saturn's ring show collision"(Astronomy Magazine)

      Week 10/02/06 -10/08/06:

• "'Ancient light' takes Nobel Prize"(BBC)
• "Fast-moving planets cruise around stars"(CNN)
• "Oh, for the simple days of the Big Bang"(Nytimes)
• "Astronomers See Inside a Quasar for the First Time"(ECOS)

         Week 09/25/06 -10/01/06:

• "Nations vie for giant telescope"(BBC)
  
• "More trouble for Hubble"(CNN)
• "Astronomers find supernova first spotted in A.D. 185"(CNN)
  
• "Is the universe out of round?"(Astronomy Magazine)
  

         Week 09/18/06-09/24/06:

• "Planets have scientists buzzing"(BBC)
  
• "Exploding star 'breaks the rules'"(BBC)
• "Cydonia - The face of Mars"(physlink)
• "Tracing the Evolution of the First Galaxies in the Universe"(hubblesite)
• "South America witnesses eclipse"(BBC)
  

          Week 09/11/06-09/17/06:

• "Pluto loses status as a planet" (BBC)
• "Scientists Snap Images of First Brown Dwarf in Planetary System" (ECOS)
• "Dead stars provide Einstein test" (BBC)
• Chandra Independently Determines Hubble Constant" (physlink)
  
• "Astronomers find distant, fluffy world" (CNN)

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Last updated December 10th, 2006.