The United Nations Educational arm and the International Astronomical Union have gotten together to declare 2009 the International Year of Astronomy. This comes 400 years after Galileo first used a telescope to get a better view of the night sky.
Astronomers continue to look deeper and more broadly than ever before. To the point that in 2006, Astronomers decided that the baby planet of our solar system: Pluto, is not really a planet. OK, they are calling it a dwarf planet and the decision of astronomers to define planets the way they did has also added about two other dwarf planets to our solar system. All those songs you learned in Elementary school to memorize the planets will now need to be rewritten.
They have discovered Black Holes and anti-black holes (called white holes, bright areas intent on expelling things away instead of attracting them in). Also: what comes first, the black hole or the galaxy associated with it? Recent astronomers think it was the black hole itself. They have found that nearby galaxies are uniformly 700 times as large as the black hole in their center. But of course much of this in based on partially tested theories and much work will still need to be done before the origins of black holes can be fully explained.
What things will be discovered this year?
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