Telling the time on Saturn, Sir Patrick Moore and missing trousers, spying on the birth of a black-hole and more…
- Schoolchildren discover new comet on school trip (Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2013, Submitted by Mark Galvin)
- Earth’s core far hotter than thought (BBC, 26th April 2013, Submitted by Mark Galvin)
- Einstein’s General Relativity Theory Gets New Confirmation In Study Of White Dwarf, Neutron Star (Huffington Post, 26th April 2013, Submitted by Mark Galvin)
- Sun Spot AR1726 At The Limb (SpaceWeather.com, 26th April 2013, Submitted by Mark Galvin)
- Nasa captures incredible view of ‘rose’ hurricane 20 times bigger than any on Earth (Daily Mail, 29th April 2013, Submitted by Ken Clarke)
- Herschel telescope bows out after successful mission (Phys.Org, 29th April 2013, Submitted by Mark Galvin)
- The next big freeze could last 250 years: Experts say Sun’s activity wanes every 200 years – and the next ‘cooling period’ is due by 2040 (Daily Mail, 30th April 2013, Submitted by Ken Clarke)
- Does antimatter fall up? Researchers launch bizarre study into ‘mirror image’ atoms (Daily Mail, 30th April 2013, Submitted by Ken Clarke)
- How to throw up in space: The ‘astronaut barf bag’ created by Nasa to help deal with the inevitable effects of space sickness (Daily Mail, 1st May 2013, Submitted by Ken Clarke)
- Planet Formation Study Highlights Differences Between Mars, Jupiter ’Planetesimals’ (Huffington Post, 1st May 2013, Submitted by Mark Galvin)
- Sir Patrick Moore and the case of the missing trousers (The Guardian, 1st May 2013, Submitted by Ken Clarke)
- Astronaut spots ‘bullet hole’ in International Space Station caused by rock travelling at 22,000mph (but luckily it only hit a solar panel) (Daily Mail, 3rd May 2013, Submitted by Ken Clarke)
- Star Trek: Sir Martin Rees: ‘How post-humans could colonise other worlds’ (Daily Telegraph, 3rd May 2013, Submitted by Ken Clarke)
- ESA’s Vega rocket poised for second launch (BBC News, 3rd May 2013, Submitted by Mark Galvin)
- Bright, Long-Lasting GRB Sets Energy Output Record (Universe Today, 3rd May 2013, Submitted by Mark Galvin)
- How Saturn’s Magnetic Activity Could Help us Pinpoint Time on the Ringed Planet (Universe Today, 3rd May 2013, Submitted by Mark Galvin)
- New kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen before: Birth of a black hole (Phys.Org, 3rd May 2013, Submitted by Mark Galvin)
- Russian scientist claims to have found asteroid fragments from mysterious explosion in Siberia in 1908 (Daily Mail, 4th May 2013, Submitted by Ken Clarke)
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