1 INAF press release: CoRoT unveils a young active star resembling the young Sun (23 December 2008) 2 A&A press release: The hottest white dwarf in its class (12 December 2008) 3 A&A press release: Young stellar objects: the source of gas emission around [..] (10 October 2008) 4 OBSPM press release : Planet or "failed star"? CoRoT finds [..] (6 October 2008) 5 ESO press release: Pinning down the Milky Way's spin (19 September 2008) 6 ESA press release: Discovery of the most massive cluster of galaxies known [..] (25 August 2008) 7 ESO press release: Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty (24 July 2008) 8 NASA press release: Brightest Star in the Galaxy has New Competition (15 July 2008) 9 A&A press release: Discovery of the source of the most common meteorites (10 July 2008) 10 JIVE press release: Radio astronomers detect "baby quasar" near the edge of the [.] (05/06/2008) 11 ESO press release: The Behemoth Has a Thick Belt (28 May 2008) 12 A&A press release: Venus Express discovers hydroxyl in the atmosphere of Venus [...] (15/05/08) 13 A&A press release: XMM-Newton discovers part of the missing matter in the Universe (7 May 2008) 14 ESO press release: Astronomers 'listen' to an exoplanet-host star and find its birthplace (15/04/08) 15 A&A press release: The coldest brown dwarf ever observed (10 April 2008) 16 ESO press release: Astronomers calibrate the distance scale of the Universe (11 February 2008) 17 A&A special feature: Science with the solar space observatory Hinode (20 March 2008)