Everything is perfect! Solar-B and its vehicle M-V-7 rocket have been successfully launced from Uchinoura Space Center (USC/JAXA). The spacecraft was put in the planned orbit. It has been named Hinode, which means sunrise in Japanese. All status of the spacecraft including solar panel power, atitude, temperatures of instruments, and ultra fine Sun sensor (UFSS) are nominal.

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ESA gets ready to launch a stellar seismologist COROT to detect and study the vibrations of stars (starquakes) , and aid in the search for extrasolar planets and more particularly the telluric planets.

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The largest planet discovered to date is a gas giant larger than Jupiter and less dense than cork Planet HAT-P-1 is in orbit around a star in the constellation Lacerta around 450 light-years away.

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If one compares two images from SOHO's C3 coronagraph on September 12, 2006, you can detect something has changed. The rather faint and obscure metal armature that holds the centered, blue occulting disk over the telescope lens (where the Sun would be) has moved 180 degrees from one image to the next. Why?

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The icy dwarf planet was nicknamed Xena by its discoverer, Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology and given the designation 2003 UB313 by the International Astronomy Union, today announced that Xena the Largest known dwarf planet receives its official name Eris (Greek Goddess of Chaos and Discord).

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Solar-B The next generation solar observatory go for launch Sept 22 2006. Solar-B's Mission: To Measure Solar Magnetic Fields.

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Spitzer Space Telescope shows the recycling of stardust.

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Hubble's captures the sharpest View of the Orion Nebula.

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Astronomers find the most distant galaxy in the universe, Galaxy IOK-1 is nearly 12.88 billion light-years away, so far away light waves depict it as stars from just after Big Bang

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Hubble captures Ariel transits of Uranus

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