Mainly photocopies; includes cuttings on astronomy in general, science funding and policies, and the following:

Jan.-June: asteroids, the discovery of the most distant known galaxy, Saturn, dark matter, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the Kuiper Belt, the Clementine probe’s map of the Moon, water on Mars, quasars, plans for further lunar exploration, SETI and the search for alien life, a rendezvous in space between the Discovery shuttle and the MIR Space Station, light pollution, Jupiter, Michael Foale (the first Britain to perform a spacewalk), Red Dwarf Gliese 623b, the discovery of helium, the Endeavour Mission, the mountains of Venus, the Lunar Prospector Mission, the discovery of oil on Titan, Martian volcanic ash, a Martian meteorite, the Hubble Space Telescope, the 500th edition of The Sky at Night TV programme, SET95 Programme, a survey of known galaxies, a dispute between Chile and ESO over the location of the VLT, black holes, the Southern skies, the age of the stars, Stephen Hawking, a meteor over Perth, the University of Arizona’s plans for a Large Binocular Telescope, the Andromeda galaxy, plans for Space Station Alpha, sunspots, ‘strange dwarf’ stars, Comet Shoemaker-Levy’s collision with Jupiter in 1994, the theft of a first edition of Newton’s ‘Principia’ from Christ Church College, Oxford, steam spotted on the Sun, etc.

July-Aug.: meteor storms threatening the International Space Station, mobile phones interfering with radio astronomy, the Galileo probe and its findings on Jupiter, the future of the Royal Observatory, Cambridge, the Ulysses probe’s solar voyage, a meteor over Britain, the WYFFOS spectrograph developed at Cambridge, time and time travel, the VLT, plans to send a probe to Titan, the Large Binocular Telescope at Mount Graham, Comet Bennett, threats to Britain’s membership of the ESA, the Big Bang, the age of the Universe, space probes Pioneer 6 and 11, delays to the launch of ESA’s Ariene V, disputes over ESA’s involvement with the International Space Station, ‘heavenly heat’, deep space, the Sawtry and District Astronomical Society, the Soho Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, Patrick Moore at the Papworth Astronomy Club, the naming of an asteroid after Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, Richard Dawkins on astrology, etc. Includes news articles written by Sir Martin Rees.