Each year there are multiple exciting stories and discoveries in the field of astronomy. We are about one month into 2019 and we've already seen the landing of a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon and the passing of New Horizons by a small object a few astronomical units beyond Pluto. With 11 months to go there are sure to be many more exciting discoveries.
Top Astronomy News Stories of 2018
It is hard, if not impossible to determine the 'best' astronomy story of 2018. There were so many wonderful things that happened! We talked about these in my astronomy class the other day. Students brought up the InSight landing on Mars, the end of the Kepler mission and the start of the TESS mission, landing a spacecraft on an asteroid, the death of Stephen Hawking, etc.
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| Professor Stephen Hawking in Cambridge, UK - Doug Wheller |
It was sad to see Stephen Hawking and his tremendous accomplishments in the field of astrophysics leave us last year.
In astronomy class we browsed the web for other astronomy news stories from 2018. Society loves lists, so we found many sites publishing top ten lists of astronomy stories. Here are a few we found:
We you see these, it makes you wonder what 2019 will bring us!
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