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In the News – Year 2011

12.22.11 – WISE Presents a Cosmic Wreath
12.21.11 – RXTE Detects “Heartbeat” of Smallest Black Hole Candidate
12.21.11 – NASA Extends Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contract
12.21.11 – INTEGRAL deciphers diffuse signature of cosmic-ray electrons
12.20.11 – Image of Comet C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) as seen by the Hinode Satellite
12.19.11 – Science Nugget: Using Many Instruments to Track a Comet
12.16.11 – Comet Lovejoy Plunges into the Sun and Survives
12.14.11 – Curiosity and the Solar Storm
12.09.11 – Star Explosion Leaves Behind a Rose
12.07.11 – Ten Successful Years of Mapping the Middle Atmosphere
12.06.11 – Solar Storms Could ‘Sandblast’ the Moon
12.06.11 – Space Weather Workshop
11.30.11 – Swift Finds a Gamma-Ray Burst With a Dual Personality
11.10.11 – NASA's Swift Catches Asteroid Flyby
11.10.11 – 2012: Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility
11.09.11 – New NASA Mission Would Reveal the Hearts of Undead Stars
11.04.11 – A 360 Degree View of an X-class Flare and A CME
11.01.11 – Hinode's First Light…and Five More Years
10.27.11 – Solar Cycle Primer
10.26.11 – Stories of Missions Past: Early Explorers
10.26.11 – ‘Pacman’ Nebula Gets Some Teeth
10.26.11 – NASA Chat: The Sun Has a ‘Cirtain’ Flare
10.25.11 – Beautiful Red Aurora
10.25.11 – STEREO Celebrates Five Years
10.24.11 – NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova Mystery
10.06.11 – ESA To Collaborate with NASA on Solar Science Mission
10.06.11 – NASA Developing Instruments For New Solar Orbiter Mission
10.04.11 – Incoming Comet; Outgoing CME
10.04.11 – Nikolaos Paschalidis: Miniaturized Details and the Big Picture
09.29.11 – NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth
09.29.11 – NASA Selects Science Investigations For Concept Studies
09.27.11 – Geomagnetic Storm Subsiding
09.26.11 – NASA to Host News Conference on Asteroid Findings
09.22.11 – Solar Activity Can Affect Re-Entry of UARS Satellite
09.22.11 – A Solar Flare and a CME
09.22.11 – Aurora From ISS Orbit
09.20.11 – Six CMEs in 24 Hours
09.20.11 – NASA's WISE Mission Captures Black Hole's Flaring Jet
09.19.11 – Origin of Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Remains a Mystery
09.12.11 – Solar Activity Subsiding - Auroras Ablaze
09.08.11 – Sunspot 1283 Is Bristling With Flares-UPDATED
09.07.11 – X2.1 Solar Flare and CME
09.07.11 – SDO Spots a Late Phase in Solar Flares
09.06.11 – M5.3 Solar Flare Eruption-CME
08.24.11 – Researchers Detail How A Distant Black Hole Devoured A Star
08.24.11 – Sunspot Breakthrough
08.23.11 – NASA'S Wise Mission Discovers Coolest Class of Stars
08.23.11 – NASA Event to Discuss Black Holes and Extreme Objects
08.18.11 – Space Storm Tracked from Sun to Earth
08.13.11 – Project Echo
08.09.11 – Sun Unleashes X6.9 Class Flare
08.08.11 – Sun Packs a Double Punch-UPDATED
08.02.11 – LADEE Project Manager Update
08.02.11 – INTEGRAL observations suggest unified model for AGN requires a rethink
08.01.11 – Friday Night M9.3 Light
07.27.11 – NASA's WISE Finds Earth's First Trojan Asteroid
07.27.11 – SDO Spots Extra Energy in the Sun's Corona
07.22.11 – MAVEN Mission Completes Major Milestone
07.19.11 – Two NASA Probes Tackle New Mission: Studying the Moon
07.18.11 – STS-135 Sees Aurora Australis
07.17.11 – Second ARTEMIS Spacecraft Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit
07.14.11 – New Ways to Measure Magnetism Around the Sun
07.14.11 – Comet Hartley 2 Leaves a Bumpy Trail
07.11.11 – Dark Fireworks on the Sun
07.07.11 – First-Ever View of a Sungrazer Comet In Front of the Sun
07.06.11 – Noctilucent Cloud Season Begins
06.30.11 – INTEGRAL challenges physics beyond Einstein
06.28.11 – First ARTEMIS Spacecraft Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit
06.24.11 – Solstice Flare and CME - UPDATE
06.23.11 – ARTEMIS Spacecraft Prepare for Lunar Orbit
06.22.11 – Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm
06.17.11 – NASA's Swift Sees Star Gobbled Up by Black Hole
06.14.11 – New Insights On How Solar Minimums Affect Earth
06.10.11 – Nearby Galaxy Boasts Two Monster Black Holes
06.10.11 – STEREO Sees Complete Far Side
06.10.11 – Having a Solar Blast - UPDATE
06.10.11 – NASA Invites News Media to Space Weather Enterprise Forum
06.07.11 – Surfing on the Sun, as seen by SDO
06.01.11 – Memorial Weekend Light Show
05.31.11 – A Night with the Stars…in a Conference Room
05.27.11 – Swift Finds Most Distant Gamma-ray Burst Yet
05.25.11 – NASA's WISE Mission Offers a Taste of Galaxies to Come
05.19.11 – NASA Telescope Helps Confirm Nature of Dark Energy
05.11.11 – NASA's Fermi Spots ‘Superflares’ in the Crab Nebula
04.30.11 – Geomagnetic Storm Light Show at Both Poles
04.29.11 – Goddard Building Instrument To Study Reconnection
04.28.11 – NASA's Swift and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris
04.21.11 – Ultraviolet Spotlight on Plump Stars in Tiny Galaxies
04.21.11 – STEREO Spacecraft Discovers New Eclipsing Binary Stars
04.21.11 – SDO First Light Anniversary Contest
04.18.11 – Clouds, Clouds, Burning Bright
04.14.11 – WISE Delivers Millions of Galaxies, Stars, Asteroids
04.14.11 – The Watched Pot and Fast CMEs
04.14.11 – RBSP - Mission Status
04.10.11 – NASA Telescope Ferrets Out Planet-Hunting Targets
04.08.11 – WISE Mission Spots 'Horseshoe' Asteroid
04.07.11 – NASA Telescopes Observe Unprecedented Explosion
04.07.11 – Study Confirms Engine of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
04.01.11 – The Art of Making Stars
03.24.11 – Suzaku Shows Clearest Picture Yet of Perseus Galaxy Cluster
03.24.11 – INTEGRAL discovers gamma rays originating from black hole jets
03.16.11 – Fortuitous Timing for NASA's New Space Weather App
03.10.11 – Speed Demon Creates a Shock
03.09.11 – Celebrating 400 Years of Sunspot Observations
03.07.11 – INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity (AO-9)
03.04.11 – ‘Elephant Trunks’ in Space
03.02.11 – Researchers Crack the Mystery of the Spotless Sun
03.01.11 – Geomagnetic Storm In Progress
02.24.11 – Monster Prominence Erupts from the Sun
02.22.11 – Launching Balloons in Antarctica
02.18.11 – Can WISE Find the Hypothetical ‘Tyche’?
02.17.11 – Catching Space Weather in the Act
02.11.11 – SDO Sundog Mystery
02.11.11 – SDO Celebrates One Year Anniversary
02.06.11 – First Ever STEREO Images of the Entire Sun
02.01.11 – NASA's NEOWISE Completes Scan for Asteroids and Comets
01.31.11 – Tracking the Origins of Speedy Space Particles
01.24.11 – Runaway Star Plows Through Space
01.20.11 – Swift Survey Finds 'Missing' Active Galaxies
01.13.11 – Partner Galaxies Wildly Different in New WISE IMAGE
01.12.11 – High-Energy Surprises in ‘Constant’ Crab Nebula
01.12.11 – The Crab Nebula: standard candle no more?
01.11.11 – Holes in the Sun's Corona
01.10.11 – In Distant Galaxies, New Clues to Century-Old Molecule Mystery
01.10.11 – NASA's Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space
01.06.11 – Hotspots Help Explain Coronal Heating Mystery
01.06.11 – Hinode Observes Annular Solar Eclipse