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Astrophysics

NASA's GLAST satellite launched into orbit on 05 June. More....

NASA's Swift satellite has caught a star going supernova in the act. While astronomers were taking images of SN 2007uy in the galaxy NGC 2770, they noted an extremely bright, five-minute X-ray outburst from another location in the same galaxy. The visible light from what is now designated as SN 2008D appeared a few days later. More....

A supernova that occurred 140 years ago in the Milky Way galaxy has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NRAO's Very Large Array. The supernova remnant, designated G1.9+0.3, was previously undiscovered due to obscurration by dust and gas. More....

Heliophysics

NASA's THEMIS mission, five identical spacecraft dedicating to tracking the causes of magnetospheric substorms, was successfully launched at 18:01 EST on 17 February. More...

Lunar and Planetary Science

Preliminary results of the first flyby of Mercury by MESSENGER have been released. For more information, see the NASA press release.

The Phoenix lander continues to collect samples and perform analyses. See the latest news release for more details. More images from the northern plains of Mars have been returned.

The IAU has announced that Pluto and Eris are now designated "plutoids". For more, see the 11 June IAU Press Release.