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International Year of Astronomy
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To mark in 2009 the International Year of Astronomy and 400 years since Galileo made his first telescope observations, Nature has commissioned a series of special articles and reviews. From telescopes to planets, stars, galaxies and cosmology, plus commentary on the state of the field from top experts, we hope they will make you look at the universe with new eyes.
Image: Hubble Space Telescope/Christian Darkin
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Editorial
EDITORIAL
Starry messages
Nature 457, 7 (1 January 2009) doi:10.1038/457007a
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News and features
NEWS FEATURE
Cosmology: The test of inflation
Eric Hand
Nature 458, 820 (16 April 2009) doi:10.1038/450606a
NEWS Q & A
Praying for success
Jascha Hoffman
NatureNews (8 April 2009) doi:10.1038/news.2009.345
NEWS FEATURE
Astronomy: The rock that fell to Earth
Roberta Kwok
Nature 458, 401 (25 March 2009) doi:10.1038/458401a
NEWS
Test balloon breaks endurance record
Eric Hand
NatureNews (8 February 2009) doi:10.1038/news.2009.85
NEWS
The world's top ten telescopes revealed
Eric Hand
NatureNews (6 February 2009) doi:10.1038/news.2009.81
NEWS FEATURE
Year of astronomy: New eyes, new skies
Jeff Kanipe & Lynette Cook
Nature 457, 18 (1 January 2009) doi:10.1038/450606a
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Opinion
BOOKS & ARTS
Third physics opera for Philip Glass
Jay M. Pasachoff & Naomi Pasachoff
Nature 462, 724 (10 December 2009) doi:10.1038/462724a
BOOKS & ARTS
In Retrospect: Kepler's Astronomia Nova
Jack J. Lissauer
Nature 462, 725 (10 December 2009) doi:10.1038/462725a
BOOKS & ARTS
Charting the heavens from China
Jane Qiu
Nature 459, 778 (11 June 2009) doi:10.1038/459778a
BOOKS & ARTS
Looking for planets like ours
Michael Brown
Nature 459, 777 (11 June 2009) doi:10.1038/459777a
BOOKS & ARTS
Galileo and the Pope
Jay M. Pasachoff & Naomi Pasachoff
Nature 459, 512 (28 May 2009) doi:10.1038/459512a
SPRING BOOKS
An eye on the Universe
Joachim Wambsganss
Nature 458, 1116 (30 April) doi:10.1038/4581116a
BOOKS & ARTS
Flashes of cosmic brilliance
Martin Kemp
Nature 458, 836 (16 April 2009) doi:10.1038/458836a
COMMENTARY
Time to turn off the lights
Malcolm Smith
Nature 457, 27 (1 January 2009) doi:10.1038/457027a
ESSAY
Year of astronomy: Mankind's place in the Universe
Owen Gingerich
Nature 457, 28 (1 January 2009) doi:10.1038/457028a
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Reviews
Progress
Volatile accretion history of the terrestrial planets and dynamic implications
Francis Albaréde
Nature 460, 1227 (29 October 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08477
Progress
Beyond the myth of the supernova-remnant origin of cosmic rays
Yousaf Butt
Nature 460, 701 (6 August 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08127
REVIEW
The role of black holes in galaxy formation and evolution
A. Cattaneo et al.
Nature 460, 213 (9 July 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08135
REVIEW
Solar eclipses as an astrophysical laboratory
Jay M. Pasachoff
Nature 459, 789 (11 June 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07987
REVIEW
The formation of the first stars and galaxies
Volker Bromm, Naoki Yoshida, Lars Hernquist & Christopher F. McKee
Nature 459, 49 (7 May 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07990
REVIEW
The dawn of the particle astronomy era in ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
Pablo M. Bauleo & Julio Rodríguez Martino
Nature 458, 847 (16 April 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07948
REVIEW
18 years of science with the Hubble Space Telescope
Julianne J. Dalcanton
Nature 457, 41 (1 January 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07621
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Research
LETTER
A bold γ-ray burst at a redshift of z approximately 8.2
N. R. Tanvir et al.
Nature 461, 1254 (29 October 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08459
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GRB 090423 at a redshift of z approximately 8.1
R. Salvaterra et al.
Nature 461, 1258 (29 October 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08445
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NEWS & VIEWS
Astrophysics: Most distant cosmic blast seen
Bing Zhang
Nature 461, 1221 (29 October 2009) doi:10.1038/4611221a
LETTER
Earth's transmission spectrum from lunar eclipse observations
Enric Pallé, María Rosa Zapatero Osorio, Rafael Barrena, Pilar Montañés-Rodríguez & Eduardo L. Martín
Nature 459, 814 (11 June 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08050
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Planetary science: The Solar System's extended shelf life
Gregory Laughlin
Nature 459, 781 (11 June 2009) doi:10.1038/459781a
LETTER
Existence of collisional trajectories of Mercury, Mars and Venus with the Earth
J. Laskar & M. Gastineau
Nature 459, 817 (11 June 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08096
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The impact and recovery of asteroid 2008 TC3
P. Jenniskens et al.
Nature 458, 485 (26 March 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07920
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NEWS & VIEWS
Astrophysics: Hidden Universe uncovered
Ian Smail
Nature 458, 710 (9 April 2009) doi:10.1038/458710a
LETTER
Over half of the far-infrared background light comes from galaxies at z ≥ 1.2
Mark J. Devlin et al.
Nature 458, 737 (9 April 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07918
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NEWS & VIEWS
Astrophysics: Capturing black-hole pairs
Jon M. Miller
Nature 458, 40 (5 March 2009) doi:10.1038/458040a
LETTER
A candidate sub-parsec supermassive binary black hole system
Todd A. Boroson & Tod R. Lauer
Nature 458, 53 (5 March 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07779
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NEWS & VIEWS
Astrophysics: Star formation branches out
Ralph E. Pudritz
Nature 457, 37 (1 January 2009) doi:10.1038/457037a
LETTER
A role for self-gravity at multiple length scales in the process of star formation
Alyssa A. Goodman et al.
Nature 457, 63 (1 January 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07609
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Video
Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago has reached Earth, setting a new record for the most distant astronomical object yet observed. The characteristics of the explosion show that massive stars were already forming only 630 million years after the Big Bang. The researchers discuss their Nature paper here.
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