August 19, 2005
- The SOHO spacecraft have now provided images to discover 1000 comets. The 1000th comet was discovered by amateur astronomer, Toni Scarmato, who has now discovered 15 comets using SOHO images. (ESA)
- Scientists publish the full genome of the bacterium Pelagibacter ubique, which contains only 1,354 genes. It is estimated that it represents one quarter of the ocean's total number of organisms. (BBC)
Read more about this topic: August 2005 In Science
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