Astronomy and Space News Roundup: 24th May 2013 to 30th June 2013

We haven’t posted any news roundups for a few weeks, so this is a bumper crop. Thanks to everyone who’s been sending things in!

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24th May 2013 Crack team of seamstresses from underwear maker Playtex revealed as secret behind the Apollo spacesuits Daily Mail Ken Clarke
24th May 2013 First topographical map of Titan reveals tallest peak is just 500 METRES high Daily Mail Ken Clarke
24th May 2013 Neptune and Uranus Possess Weird Jet Streams Discovery.com Space News Mark Galvin
24th May 2013 Will astronauts LIVE on the moon by 2020? Nasa report predicts private firms will travel to the lunar surface Daily Mail Ken Clarke
25th May 2013 Tim Peake: Next stop Mars! The Guardian Ken Clarke
26th May 2013 New light cast on dark matter… The Observer Ken Clarke
28th May 2013 Mysterious and Well-Preserved Oort Cloud Object Heading Into Our Solar System Universe Today Mark Galvin
29th May 2013 Saturn’s Moon Dione May Have Been Active Like Enceladus Universe Today Mark Galvin
29th May 2013 Soyuz Crew Sets Record for Fastest Trip to Space Station Universe Today Mark Galvin
30th May 2013 Approaching Asteroid Has Its Own Moon (Related Video: NASA ScienceCasts: Big Asteroid Flyby) NASA Website Gerard Gilligan
30th May 2013 New Images of Comet ISON Hurtling Towards the Sun Universe Today Mark Galvin
31st May 2013 Armstrong’s Ohio Accent May Have Masked His Missing “A” Universe Today Mark Galvin
31st May 2013 Mars radiation fears won’t deter Nasa: the will to explore will prevail The Guardian Ken Clarke
1st June 2013 First Glimpse of Moving Starlight Discovery.com Space News Mark Galvin
2nd June 2013 A Ghostly “Ladder” in Saturn’s F Ring Universe Today Mark Galvin
2nd June 2013 In the 1960s, while Nasa’s astronauts performed heroics in space, back on earth their wives also became celebrities Daily Mail Ken Clarke
3rd June 2013 International Space Orchestra: the designer taking music into space The Guardian Ken Clarke
4th June 2013 Crashed Asteroid Has a Tail that Keeps Getting Longer Universe Today Mark Galvin
5th June 2013 Amateur Images of the Ring Nebula Rival Views from Space Telescopes Universe Today Mark Galvin
6th June 2013 First-Ever Video of an ATV Vehicle Into Orbit! Universe Today Mark Galvin
7th June 2013 The ’comet factory’ where planets first form after particles are clumped together in a dust trap Daily Mail Ken Clarke
7th June 2013 The stunning first images of the young stars found in our galaxy’s ‘countryside’ Daily Mail Ken Clarke
8th June 2013 10 Years & Top 10 Discoveries from Marvelous Mars Express Universe Today Mark Galvin
8th June 2013 First woman to go into space offers to set out on one-way trip to Mars at the age of 76 Daily Mail Ken Clarke
10th June 2013 Alien-hunting $1 billion telescope could be ready in just 5 years Daily Mail Ken Clarke
10th June 2013 Has DRINKABLE water been found on Mars? Expedition rover Opportunity finds first signs it once flowed there Daily Mail Ken Clarke
11th June 2013 Cassini Captures Saturn’s Darkest Rings Universe Today Mark Galvin
11th June 2013 Chinese spacecraft blasts off from Gobi desert The Guardian Ken Clarke
11th June 2013 Singing astronaut Chris Hadfield who became the first person to use Twitter in space retires (and he tweeted his resignation of course) Daily Mail Ken Clarke
12th June 2013 Grooves on Mars ’caused by sledding blocks of dry ice’, NASA says Daily Mail Ken Clarke
12th June 2013 Lone Signal: First Continous Message Beacon to Find and Say Hello to an Extraterrestrial Civilization Universe Today Mark Galvin
12th June 2013 Plastic Protection Against Cosmic Rays? Universe Today Mark Galvin
13th June 2013 Black hole bonanza in ’next door’ Andromeda galaxy The Guardian Ken Clarke
13th June 2013 NASA’S Hubble Uncovers Evidence of Farthest Planet Forming From Its Star NASA Website Gerard Gilligan
13th June 2013 Where Is Dark Matter Most Dense? Subaru Telescope Gets Some Hints Universe Today Mark Galvin
14th June 2013 Moon walker Neil Armstrong celebrated in Langholm, Scotland The Guardian Ken Clarke
14th June 2013 Spacewatch: Kepler and Herschel The Guardian Ken Clarke
14th June 2013 The beautiful 3D map of space that plots our nearest galaxies – and reminds us how tiny Earth is Daily Mail Ken Clarke
15th June 2013 Mysterious death of first man in space Yuri Gagarin after jet fighter crash in 1968 is finally solved Daily Mail Ken Clarke
17th June 2013 Earth-Passing Asteroid is “An Entirely New Beast” Universe Today Mark Galvin
18th June 2013 Cassini to Photograph Earth From Deep Space NASA Website Gerard Gilligan
19th June 2013 3-D Printer Passes Key Step On Road to Space Station Universe Today Mark Galvin
19th June 2013 Did a Piece of Mir Really Land in Massachusetts? Universe Today Mark Galvin
19th June 2013 Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere ’more than a billion years before Earth’ Daily Mail Ken Clarke
20th June 2013 Nasa’s Curiosity rover takes a BILLION-PIXEL panorama of Mars surface that lets you explore the red planet from your armchair Daily Mail Ken Clarke
21st June 2013 Amazing Shots! Shenzhou-10 Docked to Tiangong-1, Transiting the Sun Universe Today Mark Galvin
21st June 2013 NASA Joins European-Japanese Mission to Mercury Discovery.com Space News Mark Galvin
21st June 2013 New Horizons Spacecraft ‘Stays the Course’ for Pluto System Encounter Universe Today Mark Galvin
21st June 2013 Photographer creates incredible pictures of what it would look like if planets were closer Daily Mail Ken Clarke
24th June 2013 Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) Gerard Gilligan
24th June 2013 This Energy-Boosting Region In The Sun Will Have A New NASA Satellite Watching It Universe Today Mark Galvin
25th June 2013 Nasa sets Grand Challenge to public: find earth-destroying asteroids The Guardian Ken Clarke
25th June 2013 Three ’super-Earths’ found orbiting single star could harbour life Daily Telegraph Ken Clarke
26th June 2013 Another Exoplanet Hunting Mission Ends: CoRoT Spacecraft Can’t be Recovered Universe Today Mark Galvin
26th June 2013 Arthur C Clarke’s DNA to join mission into deep space The Guardian Ken Clarke
26th June 2013 China’s Shenzhou-10 Spacecraft Returns to Earth Discovery.com Space News Mark Galvin
27th June 2013 New Android App Makes it Easier to Use Your Phone While Stargazing Universe Today Mark Galvin
27th June 2013 Pocket Spacecraft on a mission to the moon Hobby Space Helen White
28th June 2013 Neutron Stars: A Cataclysmic Conception Universe Today Mark Galvin
28th June 2013 Russian Meteor Shock Rippled Around Earth, Twice Discovery.com Space News Mark Galvin
29th June 2013 Opportunity Approaching Mountain Climbing Goal and Signs of Habitable Martian Environment Universe Today Mark Galvin
30th June 2013 Biggest camera in solar system to create 3D map of Milky Way Daily Telegraph Ken Clarke
30th June 2013 Drink, debauchery and despair: Astronauts’ wives lift lid on grim reality behind the smiling shuttle launches Daily Telegraph Ken Clarke

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