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In the News – Year 2009

12.30.09 – Suzaku Finds “Fossil” Fireballs from Supernovae
12.29.09 – NASA's WISE Space Telescope Jettisons its Cover
12.22.09 – Prepping WISE to Pop Its Lens Cap
12.17.09 – Colliding Auroras Produce an Explosion of Light
12.15.09 – NASA's AIM Satellite and Models are Unlocking the Secrets of Mysterious “Night-Shining” Clouds
12.14.09 – WISE Begins All-Sky Survey Mission
12.10.09 – Suzaku Catches Retreat of a Black Hole's Disk
12.10.09 – WISE Launch Rescheduled for December 14
12.10.09 – WISE Launch Delayed 24 Hours
12.09.09 – Magnetic Power Revealed in Gamma-Ray Burst Jet
12.09.09 – NASA's WISE Set to Blast Off and Map the Skies
12.02.09 – Suzaku Spies Treasure Trove of Intergalactic Metal
11.30.09 – WISE Snug in Its Nose Cone
11.23.09 – WISE a Bit Closer to the Sky
11.19.09 – Mystery of the Solar Tsunami–Solved
11.17.09 – NASA's WISE Gets Ready to Survey the Whole Sky
11.17.09 – SDO Investigates the Sun's Cycle of Highs and Lows
11.11.09 – WISE Is Chilling Out
11.10.09 – Satellites Tune Into a Middleweight Black Hole
10.07.09 – Mission extensions approved for science missions
09.28.09 – Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High
09.22.09 – EVE: Measuring the Sun's Hidden Variability
09.18.09 – In Search of Dark Asteroids (and Other Sneaky Things)
09.18.09 – Julie McEnery – Fermi Project Scientist and Astrophysicist
09.16.09 – Swift's Ultraviolet Portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy
09.04.09 – NASA Approves X-ray Space Mission
08.19.09 – Galaxies Demand a Stellar Recount
08.17.09 – NASA's WISE Mission Arrives at Launch Site
08.14.09 – Flares Responsible for Outsized Heat of Sun's Corona
08.06.09 – Avalanche! The Incredible Data Stream of SDO
08.05.09 – Goddard-Led GEMS Mission to Explore the Polarized Universe
07.22.09 – Galactic positron annihilation: not a signal of dark matter?
07.21.09 – NASA's Magnetospheric MultiScale Mission Takes a Step Closer to Solving the Mystery Behind Magnetic Reconnection
07.10.09 – Solar Observatory Arrives at Kennedy Space Center
07.06.09 – What Lies inside the Sun?
06.19.09 – NASA Awards Two Small Explorer Development Contracts
06.18.09 – Jet Streams Suspected of Triggering Sunspots
06.16.09 – European Satellites Probe a New Magnetar
06.16.09 – At last! After 10 years a new Soft Gamma Repeater is observed
06.10.09 – WISE Mission Assembled and Preparing for Launch
06.10.09 – Scientists Make Fake Solar Storm to Test on Fake Human
06.10.09 – Mystery Source of Solar Wind Heating Identified
05.28.09 – Suzaku Snaps First Complete X-ray of a Galaxy Cluster
05.27.09 – Magnetic Tremors Pinpoint Epicenter of Space Storms
05.27.09 – Solar Cycle Prediction: Fewer Sunspots, a Year of Calm
05.15.09 – STEREO Spies First Major Activity of Solar Cycle 24
05.07.09 – “Singing” Electrons Protect and Threaten TV and GPS
04.28.09 – New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
04.28.09 – Galaxy-Exploring Mission Marks Sixth Anniversary
04.28.09 – SDO Spins Its Way Closer to Launch
04.14.09 – STEREO Reveals the Anatomy of Solar Storms
04.03.09 – Swift's Comet Tally Highlighted in Observatory Webcast
04.03.09 – INTEGRAL sees variable polarization from GRB041219A
04.01.09 – Sun Plunges to Quietest Solar Minimum in a Century
03.23.09 – IBEX Uses Particles to Shed Light on the Outer Solar System
03.20.09 – NASA and ESA Select Science Investigations for Solar Orbiter
03.18.09 – NASA Telescopes Explore a Blazar
02.20.09 – NASA's Swift Spies Comet Lulin
02.10.09 – Swift, Fermi Probe Gamma-Ray Fireworks
01.27.09 – Magnetar observed during outburst thanks to rapid response of INTEGRAL
01.19.09 – First light curve analysis of 20 eclipsing binaries with INTEGRAL's OMC
01.12.09 – INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity for AO-7 Cycle Observations Proposals
01.06.09 – Gamma-Ray Burst Offers First Peek at a Young Galaxy's Star Factory
01.06.09 – NASA's Swift Shows Active Galaxies Are Different Near and Far
01.05.09 – NASA-Funded Study Reveals Hazards of Severe Space Weather