Timeline; 2005

The Huygens probe entered the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan on January 14th. The technology of radio telescopes has improved so much that they managed to detect the carrier signal directly. To give you a clue as to just how good this is, it has the same energy as an ordinary mobile phone.

The Large Hadron Collider is due to be ready to start operating at CERN this year. It will produce 1 pettabyte of data per year.

Turkey prosecutes a leading novelist for bringing up their 1915 genocide.

The BBC finaly got around to producing a magazine to go with the tv programme The Sky at Night.

There were also quite a few books and movies created this year.

last modified 03:38 2005/10/04