Read article 'New eye on the
sky'
The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch the satellite in April 2001 and use it to study hard X-ray and gamma-ray sources in the energy range 15 keV to 10 MeV. A full-scale structural and therm...
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Moon sheds light on Sun Moondust contains traces of rare solar gases, krypton and xenon. This discovery, made by researchers at ETH Zurich, promises a unique archive of the life of the Sun. Buffeted b...
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Galactic downsizing The Milky Way is smaller and slower than astronomers once thought. A group at Southampton, UK, has measured the motions of stars near the Sun and their findings suggest it is 5000 ...
Read article 'SOHO back on track'
SOHO, a NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) collaboration, span out of control on 25 June leaving its solar panels almost edge-on to the Sun and unable to generate power. Since then the panels’ pos...
Read article 'First light at the
VLT'
The European Southern Observatory’s VLT at Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Atacama desert should be complete in 2005. Its four 8.2 m telescopes and three 1.8 m telescopes will make up the most sens...
