A friend is an astronomer working on Herschel, the REALLY big infra-red astronomy satellite with a 3+ metre mirror the European Space Agency launched last year. He gave a talk at the SF convention I was at this weekend, showed some of the results they're getting - a lot of really new stuff on how stars form, and what's really going on inside nebulae etc.
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=16 It's already pretty interesting, but apparently they are going to be making some major announcements in May, presumably on the first anniversary of the launch. From what I've seen already it's going to be pretty spectacular.
