Group timeline: current decade
June 8th, 2009
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2000 First light for XMM-Newton EPIC cameras (January)
2004 Swift (US-Italian-UK mission) launched from KSC on Delta rocket (November 20)
2005 First localisation and redshift of a short Gamma-Ray Burst GRB050509B at z=0.225
2006 National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) held at Leicester
2007 2XMM catalogue of serendipitous X-ray sources detected in XMM-Newton observations
released (August). 2XMM becomes the largest X-ray object catalogue ever compiled.
2008 First naked-eye GRB080319B – most distant object visible to the naked-eye
2009 Swift discovers most distant object in Universe: GRB 090423 at z=8.2
(please suggest some more highlights!)
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