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In the News – Year 2012

12.31.12 – Heliophysics 2012: Year in Review

12.28.12 – An Image Gallery Gift from NASA's Swift

12.21.12 – WMAP Team Releases Final Results on Universe's Oldest Light

12.13.12 – Study: Remarkable Symmetry in Black Hole Jets

12.13.12 – Instrument Deck Installed on MMS Observatory #2

12.12.12 – Astronomers Catch Binging Black Hole's Jet

12.06.12 – Little Telescope Spies Gigantic Galaxy Clusters

12.05.12 – Van Allen Probes Reveal New Dynamics of Radiation Belts

12.05.12 – Heliophysics Nugget: Sungrazing Comets as Solar Probes

12.04.12 – SOHO: Crucial Space Weather Mission Hits 17 Years

11.26.12 – Solar Minimum; Solar Maximum

11.24.12 – Continuing Thanksgiving Eruptions On the Sun

11.22.12 – NASA Spacecraft Observe a Thanksgiving CME

11.20.12 – NASA Spacecraft Observe Nov. 20 Solar Eruption

11.20.12 – Pointing the Telescope and Probing the X-ray Sky

11.19.12 – NASA Extends Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contract

11.16.12 – Instrument Delivered for NASA's Upcoming Mars Mission

11.16.12 – Double Trouble

11.14.12 – Hinode Views Two Solar Eclipses

11.14.12 – Total Solar Eclipse Viewed from Australia

11.13.12 – Sun Emits a Mid-level Flare

11.13.12 – Hinode to Support Ground-based Eclipse Observations

11.09.12 – Astronomers develop new method to determine neutron star mass

11.01.12 – SAMPEX: A Space Weather Warrior

11.01.12 – NASA'S Fermi Measures Cosmic ‘Fog’ Produced by Ancient Starlight

10.26.12 – STEREO Reaches Milestone At Sixth Anniversary

10.23.12 – NASA's NuSTAR Spots Flare From Milky Way's Black Hole

10.22.12 – Newly Named Sunspot AR1598 Releases M5 Class Solar Flare.

10.20.12 – A New Set of Solar Fireworks

10.18.12 – Heliophysics Nugget: Gradient Sun

10.17.12 – INTEGRAL celebrates a decade of discoveries

10.17.12 – INTEGRAL finds titanium in supernova remnant 1987A

10.15.12 – NASA's WISE Colors in Unknowns on Jupiter Asteroids

10.12.12 – Colossal Binary's Clashing Winds

10.08.12 – Aurora from Oct. 8, 2012 CME

10.05.12 – Getting NASA's SDO into Focus

10.05.12 – Swift Discovers a New Black Hole in our Galaxy

10.04.12 – Red Hot Solar Ballet

10.03.12 – The Helix Nebula - Bigger in Death than Life

10.01.12 – CME Causes Colorful Aurora

09.20.12 – NASA's Solar Fleet Peers Into Coronal Cavities

09.20.12 – NuSTAR Celebrates First 100 Days

09.13.12 – New ‘Chorus’ Recording By RBSP's EMFISIS Instrument

09.12.12 – Hours After Launch, RBSP Takes First Science Steps

09.12.12 – New RBSP Instrument Telemetry Provides ‘Textbook’ Excitement

08.30.12 – RBSP Launches – Twin Probes in Orbit

08.29.12 – ACE, Workhorse Of NASA's Heliophysics Fleet, Is 15

08.29.12 – NASA's WISE Survey Uncovers Millions of Black Holes

08.28.12 – Tracking Shuttle Exhaust Reveals More Information About Atmospheric Winds

08.24.12 – Sun Has “Eureka!” Moment

08.20.12 – Twin Probes to Study Radiation Belts

08.18.12 – Emerging Sunspot Releases Mid-level Solar Flare

08.14.12 – Tracking Electron Beams from the Sun

08.14.12 – Heliophysics Nugget: Seeing Sprites

08.13.12 – NASA STEREO Observes One of the Fastest CMEs On Record

08.08.12 – Meteor Smoke Makes Strange Clouds

08.02.12 – ‘Cry’ of a Shredded Star Heralds a New Era for Testing Relativity

07.30.12 – Sun Emits a Medium-Intensity Solar Flare

07.27.12 – NuSTAR Mission Status Report

07.23.12 – A Taste of Solar Maximum

07.20.12 – NASA Telescope Captures Sharpest Images of Sun's Corona

07.19.12 – Sun Sends Out Mid-Level Solar Flare

07.19.12 – Colorful Science Sheds Light on Solar Heating

07.18.12 – Electric Atmosphere: Plasma Is Next NASA Science Target

07.17.12 – Heliophysics Nugget: Riding the Plasma Wave

07.15.12 – CME Arrival Results in Aurora Show

07.12.12 – Sunspot 1520 Releases Strong Solar Flare and CME

07.11.12 – HI-C Sounding Rocket Mission Launches Successfully

07.09.12 – Active Region 1515 Releases M6.9 Class Flare

07.09.12 – July 12, 1962: The Day Information Went Global

07.07.12 – Sun Releases X1.1 Class Flare

07.05.12 – Another M-class Flare from Sunspot 1515

07.05.12 – SUMI Sounding Rocket Mission Launches Successfully

07.05.12 – The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Dust

07.05.12 – SUMI Rocket Launches Successfully

07.04.12 – Independence Day Fireworks

07.03.12 – Solar Fireworks on July 2

07.03.12 – In McNeil's Nebula, a Young Star Flaunts its X-ray Spots

07.02.12 – Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field

07.02.12 – The ‘Flame’ Burns Bright in New WISE Image

06.28.12 – Hubble, Swift Detect First-Ever Changes in an Exoplanet Atmosphere

06.28.12 – Space Telescope Opens Its X-Ray Eyes

06.27.12 – NuSTAR Mission Status Report

06.26.12 – Committee on Space Research Honors NASA's Neil Gehrels for Science Contributions

06.23.12 – SDO/EVE Sounding Rocket Launches Successfully

06.22.12 – WMAP Team Awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize

06.21.12 – NuSTAR Observatory Unfurls its Unique Mast

06.18.12 – UPDATE: Two CMEs Hit Earth's Magnetosphere

06.15.12 – 2012 Noctilucent Cloud Season Begins

06.14.12 – New Solar Active Region Spitting Out Flares

06.13.12 – Student Teams Win Space Grant Competition

06.13.12 – NASA's NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off

06.12.12 – Spotting Ultrafine Loops in the Sun's Corona

06.11.12 – NuSTAR to Drop From Plane and Rocket Into Space

06.08.12 – WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close To Home

06.08.12 – Instrument Integration Begins on MMS Spacecraft

06.07.12 – NuSTAR Arrives at Island Launch Site

06.06.12 – NASA to Host News Teleconference About NuSTAR Launch

06.05.12 – NuSTAR to Open X-ray Eyes on Universe

06.04.12 – RHESSI Uses Venus Transit to Improve Measurements of the Sun's Diameter

06.04.12 – NuSTAR Strapped to its Plane

06.04.12 – The Mysterious Arc of Venus

06.01.12 – SDO to Observe Venus Transit

05.31.12 – Solar Particles Infiltrating the Atmosphere

05.30.12 – Electric Moon Jolts the Solar Wind

05.30.12 – NASA Preparing to Launch its Newest X-Ray Eyes

05.29.12 – Building 45 Payloads for Balloon Mission

05.24.12 – Sunlight ‘Nudges’ Asteroid

05.24.12 – NASA to Hold News Conference About NuSTAR Launch

05.22.12 – NASA's NuSTAR Gearing up for Launch

05.21.12 – Goddard Delivers Magnetometers for Next Mission to Mars

05.20.12 – Hinode Witnesses Solar Eclipse

05.17.12 – Solar Eclipse, May 20, 2012

05.17.12 – More Eruptions from Active Region 1476

05.16.12 – NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

05.16.12 – NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech

05.10.12 – IBEX Reveals a Missing Boundary At the Edge of the Solar System

05.02.12 – Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide

04.30.12 – Goddard Collaborates on MMS Instrument

04.26.12 – NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust

04.24.12 – ISWI: Global Space Weather Science

04.24.12 – Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Radiation Storm

04.20.12 – SDO Highlights On Its Second Anniversary

04.20.12 – Hinode/SOHO Paint Asymmetrical Picture Of the Sun

04.13.12 – NASA's Swift Monitors Departing Comet Garradd

04.12.12 – NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars

04.12.12 – Massive glitch moves magnetar modelling forward

04.09.12 – SDO/STEREO Spot Something New On the Sun

04.02.12 – Fermi Observations of Dwarf Galaxies Provide New Insights on Dark Matter

03.27.12 – Small Dynamic Events on the Sun Captured by Hinode

03.23.12 – Solar Storm Dumps Gigawatts into Upper Atmosphere

03.22.12 – Science Nugget: Modeling Extreme Space Weather

03.20.12 – Swift Narrows Down Hosts of Important Supernova Class

03.16.12 – Launch of NASA's NuSTAR Mission Postponed

03.16.12 – STEREO Far Side Sun Voted Top 2011 NASA Triumph

03.14.12 – NASA Releases New Catalog of Entire Infrared Sky

03.14.12 – INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity (AO-10)

03.13.12 – Big Sunspot Remains Active

03.12.12 – NASA March 13 NuSTAR Media Briefing Postponed

03.12.12 – Moderate Geomagnetic Storm at Earth

03.09.12 – Flying Through a Geomagnetic Storm

03.09.12 – Second Biggest Flare Of the Solar Cycle

03.09.12 – NASA's RXTE Captures Thermonuclear Behavior

03.08.12 – Storms From the Sun

03.08.12 – Study the Sun During Solar Week - March 19-23, 2012

03.08.12 – NASA to Hold Media Briefing About NuSTAR Mission

03.05.12 – Active Region on the Sun Spits Out Three Flares

03.02.12 – Engineers Tuck NuSTAR in its Nose Cone

02.27.12 – Beautiful Aurora Result From Active Solar Weekend

02.27.12 – Ultra-fast Outflows Help Monster Black Holes Shape Their Galaxies

02.24.12 – Andromeda Galaxy Pops Up Ultraluminous X-ray Sources

02.23.12 – NuSTAR Mirrors Baked in Glass Kitchen

02.17.12 – THEMIS: Five Years of Aurora and Space Weather

02.17.12 – NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket

02.08.12 – RHESSI Celebrates 10 Years and 40,000 X-Ray Flares

02.07.12 – NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode

02.06.12 – The Sun As Art

02.02.12 – Large X-class Flare Erupts on the Sun

01.31.12 – The Interstellar Material Beyond our Solar System

01.30.12 – NASA's THEMIS Satellite Sees a Great Electron Escape

01.27.12 – Space Weather Center Adding ‘Ensemble Forecasting’ Capability

01.27.12 – NuSTAR Spacecraft Arrives in California

01.27.12 – X1.8 Solar Flare and CME - 01.27.12

01.25.12 – NASA's NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg for March 14 Launch

01.25.12 – 01.23.12: M8.7 Solar Flare and Earth Directed CME-UPDATED

01.25.12 – INTEGRAL reveals new facets of the Vela pulsar wind nebula

01.24.12 – Classifying Solar Eruptions

01.19.12 – Catching a Comet Death on Camera

01.19.12 – 01.19.2012-Long Duration M3.2 Class Solar Flare and CME

01.18.12 – SDO Helps Measure Magnetic Fields on the Sun's Surface

01.13.12 – Spacecraft Cleanroom Goes Green

01.10.12 – RXTE Helps Pinpoint Black Hole's ‘Bullets’

01.10.12 – Stars Pop Onto the Scene in New WISE Image

01.09.12 – Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Completes Mission Operations

01.04.12 – SOHO “Pick of the Week” Hits Impressive Milestone