Notes re Links           

• ++ Linked items / Older Broken Links: Some web items may only be on-line for a while or change. Contents of external linked sites are beyond our control.
     Some sites delete older headlines items quite quickly , for example, science items thru yahoonews. When I can, I shift to better websources that archive longer (I avoid yahoo stories now for that reason)
     Since I have limited time to be online to verify and regularly unlink such items from the list, you will likely find various broken links the farther down the list you go. I chose to leave headlines up even when they are old so that you can at least get a feel for the past months unfolding. (In various cases, by entering key words from any "outdated" headlines here into Google for example you may sometimes find other sources of the story that are still online or at least background material.) Thanks for your understanding. reworded Oct2002
• new> Use Google to search this site.

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More Notes re "Astronomy-Related
News on the Web" Page

• This list draws on a variety of more-known and lesser-known news sources. Hopefully it helps keep you on top of interesting developments in astronomy-related areas, comes up with some goodies you might otherwsie have missed, and touches on the vast range of wonders the universe offers near and far.
   
• Sometimes earlier press-date items are added way down in this list
  '++' in the headline list marks such items recently added, so they are quick to find as you scroll down.
   
• Suggestions for items or topics or comments are much appreciated,
  please eMail Brian (but no eMail attachments, as they get filtered out.)
   
• Caution with news items - Press releases should often be taken with a grain of salt; though I try to avoid articles written solely as filler or publicity, many online items about serious news can still be incomplete and may not indicate alternative theories, error statistics, actual stage of research, specific references, stellar coordinates, etc. Also some on-line captioning of photos is, well how to put it nicely, sloppy, not properly indicating when the photo was taken, for example; sometime current stories included several-year-old photos mixed in with new but don't clearly say so (this includes some recent Hubble stories unfortunately). Also remember, many color astrophotos in news stories use highly enhanced colours, sometimes validly but sometimes extrapolating excessively.
   
• Coverage: List is not intended to be comprehensive; just what calendar-webmaster encounters - or is suggested.
   
• News items added are rarely individually listed on the Update-List page, so be sure to check back here now and then.
   
• Q and A.Wondering why a very recent story you found elsewhere is not listed in the top part of the list? Answer: sometimes stories have appeared earlier - for example the one about the moon and a now-gone fifth planet which I listed about half a month earlier than its later reappearance on the web. Another answer: the same topic maybe has been listed under a quite different title from a different news source. Or under a revised headline that hopefully clarifies the original webtitle. Yet another answer: mainly earth-focused space projects are not alwayslisted in this mainly star-focused list. And: some items are mainly technical and on web sites specialists already know about (egs. faint occultations and asteroids, interplanetary magnetic field Bz direction and so forth.)
   
• new> Use Google to search this site.
   
• Notes re Links in this headlines list
   

    
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