UVA Astronomy Professor Ed Murphy with the top 8 space stories of 2008
Ed Murphy is a professor of astronomer at the University of Virginia, and he joined Coy Barefoot on the January 7, 2009 edition of the WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to review the top space stories from the previous year.
- June 2008 launch of gamma ray laboratory named after Enrico Fermi
- Continued construction of the International Space Station
- Ice jets on Saturn moon Enceladus
- Dark energy confirmed in the universe
- Messenger spacecraft conduct two fly-bys of Mercury
- Chinese astronauts conduct first spacewalk
- NASA lands Phoenix lander in Martian icecap, discovers water ice
- Large Hardon Collider opens for business; promptly closes
