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...
Read article 'Cosmology comes of age'
The easy part is over experimental cosmology has now reached adulthood. That was the message that emerged from a workshop on cosmology and particle physics held at CERN this summer.
Read article 'How Borexino will stare at the Sun'
A new ultra-sensitive experiment to detect solar neutrinos is being built underground in Italy
