For the first time in history two artificial satellites has collided with each other. It's Iridium-33 and Cosmos-2251 that despite the extremely low probability has collided and caused large amount of debree arount the Earth. (090218)

2009 has been selected as The International Year of Astronomy because it's 400 years since Galileo Galilei pointed a telescope towards the sky for the first time. (090131)

The Nobel Prize in Physics for year 2008 goes in half to Yoichiro Nambu and Makoto Kboayashi and in half to Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" respectively "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature". (090131)

John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008) died on the 13th of April. He's was of the last living giants that developed quantum mechanics in the 1930:ies and more than probably anyone else lived for the combination of quantum mechanics and general relativity. (080413)

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