Flamsteed Astronomy Society at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

July 2009

August 2009

The mystery of magnetic reconnection

Raging fire threatens Mount Wilson

Astronauts may be sent to ‘gravity holes’

Mars meteorite once bathed in water

Cygnus X-1 spins too slowly

Chandrayaan-1 goes silent

In search of anti-matter galaxies

Time’s arrow from quantum amnesia?

Jupiter’s impact: gone in 30 days

The planet that shouldn’t exist

Were asteroids born big?

Neptune 20 years later

Landing sites on Europa identified

Citizens to help solve stellar mystery

Mystery of missing mini-galaxies

Galaxies demand a stellar recount

Messenger from the early Universe

Mega black hole twice as big as thought

New insight into evolution of life

Rude awakening for human spaceflight

Tiny flares heat Sun’s corona

‘Life chemical’ detected on comet

Still no word from ET

LIGO puts new limits on Big Bang

Beagle 2 didn’t spin in

Some GRBs from Black Hole parasites?

Did asteroid flocks form planets?

New images of star-forming region

Second backwards planet found

New exoplanet orbits backwards

Superplanetary Nebula

Meteor show reaches peak

Hawking receives top US honor

Milky Way may have hidden neighbour

Variable type 1a Supernovae

Global gamma-ray network

Meteorite mineral made in lab

Tropical storms on Titan

Opportunity’s meteorite yields clue

Black Holes got false start

Late light reveals what space is made of

Traces of planet collision found

The Sun’s youthful excesses

Miniature gravity detector

Structures leap from Saturn’s rings

Starry cocoons and double moons

Martian methane mystery deepens

Destruction of Mars methane bad news for life

The perennial Mars hoax e-mail

Spitzer’s first ‘warm’ images

Kepler sees phases of exoplanet

New images of Titan: volcanoes & lakes

Venus spot continues to puzzle

Moon may reveal cosmic neutrinos

Hyperactive galaxies in early Universe

Opportunity rock is iron meteorite

Dark energy disguises shape of Universe?

Comets not likely cause of extinctions

Experts puzzled by spots on Venus

September 2009

Cracks in Dark Matter theories

Messenger’s final fly-by of Mercury

Hawking stands down as Lucasian Prof.

Ram pressure strips Virgo

GigaGalaxy trilogy complete

Report brightens Arecibo’s future

Water ice in fresh craters on Mars

Evidence of water on Moon

Buried ice clues for Mars climate

Keck probes dual dust disks

New quirks revealed in Saturn’s rings

No home in galactic outer suburbs

Swirling clump of planetary stuff

World’s best impact craters

Internal rotation of a white dwarf

Asteroid! Earth’s defences put to test

62 meteor showers new to science

Chandra snaps Milky Way centre

Artificial cloud created at edge of space

Wind, not water, may explain Mar’s hue

Vista shines light of galactic centre

Moon is coldest known place

Distant world ‘has rocky surface’

Rocky exo-world breaks records

Should Mars really be black?

LRO hints at water on Moon

Rare meteorite found by ‘fireball’ obs.

ISS grabs Japanese freighter

Tipped-over binary stars

No spots doesn’t mean quiet Sun

Too much radiation for Mars trip

Two observatories saved from wildfires

Swift’s UV portrait of Andromeda

Prize for wonder of science past

Planck telescope’s first glimpse

Pause in Arctic’s melting trend

New formula for finding habitable worlds

Crunch time for Russia Mars probe

Life compounds recreated in lab

‘Ice Explorer’ ready for launch

Ice mission returns for second go

New views of Ganymede

More evidence for Venus’ watery past?

Mars’ dried-up lakes and CO2 ice

Refurbished Hubble off to flying start

Titan’s wet north pole

Haumea’s spot rich with organics?

Comet Holmes produced mini-comets

Saturn’s giant lightning storm

ESO interactive 360˚ view of night sky

Asteroids may show Jupiter’s formation

Tethys Saturn’s radiation shield

Jupiter kidnaps comets

Magnetic fields sculpt stellar growth

Celestial Rosetta stone

Quantum computer slips on to chips

Galaxy ‘cannibalism’ revealed

On the trail of the mysterious monopole

Reboot for UK’s ‘oldest’ computer

Arctic ‘warmest in 2000 years’

Lunar clock to be built for 2012

Hunt for habitable exomoons

Milky Way’s not-so-distant cousin

Milky Way will be puffed up, not ripped

Space curvature precise measurements

Most distant supermassive black hole

Are sunspots disappearing?

Solar cycle link to to ocean & air patterns

Solar cycle climate trigger

Science in microgravity: giant crystals

Can magnetism save a boiling planet?

Moon dust not so strange as hoped

Astronomy photographer of the Year pics

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