Spacecraft join forces at Jupiter
Cassini-Huygens and Galileo probe the magnetic make-up of the giant planet
First light on Gemini South
Giant infrared telescopes to give a super-sharp view of the whole sky
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Robert Hanbury Brown
A pioneer of radar and radio astronomy dies at 85
Stellar link helps black holes weigh in
Discovery allows astronomers to ‘weigh’ black holes from a snapshot of their host galaxies
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Sodium spotted in the atmosphere of distant planet
Astronomers get the first-ever glimpse of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system
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Fresh light shed on black holes
Glowing gas around a black hole gives astronomers new insights
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X marks the spot for our local black hole
Galactic X-rays pinpoint our local black hole 1500 times more accurately than earlier studies
Six of the best for gravitational lens
A distant galaxy is imaged six times by the strong gravity of a galactic cluster
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Fragment of ancient asteroid falls to Earth
A carbon-rich meteorite may be the first fragment ever found of a primitive class of asteroids
Did interplanetary dust seed life on Earth?
Dust grains are more likely to have initiated life than comet impacts
