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In the News – Year 2013

12.23.13 – Electric-Blue Clouds Appear over Antarctica

12.20.13 – Van Allen Probes Shed Light on Decades-old Mystery

12.19.13 – NASA's Asteroid Hunter Spacecraft Returns First Images after Reactivation

12.17.13 – NASA's SDO Shows the Sun's Rainbow of Wavelengths

12.13.13 – China's Lunar Lander May Provide Additional Science for NASA Spacecraft

12.12.13 – Surprise Picture for WISE's Fourth Anniversary

12.10.13 – Countdown Begins for OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission

12.10.13 – Fire vs. Ice: The Science of ISON at Perihelion

12.09.13 – IRIS Provides Unprecedented Images of Sun

12.06.13 – NASA Astrophysicist Confirms Existence of Giant Convection Cells on Sun

12.06.13 – New NASA Visualization Shows Sun's Magnetic Flip

12.06.13 – Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip

12.05.13 – New Instrument Continues Gathering Sun's Effects

12.04.13 – NASA Begins Search For What Is Left Of Comet ISON

12.04.13 – Glimpsing Gamma-ray Burst Jet Infrastructure

12.04.13 – New Observations from NASA's Van Allen Probes Offer Solution to Radiation Belts Mystery

12.04.13 – LADEE Instruments Healthy and Ready for Science

12.03.13 – Massive Black Hole Duo: Possible Sighting by NASA's WISE

12.02.13 – NASA Investigating the Life of Comet ISON

11.29.13 – Comet ISON May Have Survived

11.28.13 – Comet ISON Fizzles as it Rounds the Sun

11.28.13 – Comet ISON on Thanksgiving Day

11.27.13 – SOHO Shows New Images of Comet ISON

11.27.13 – Sounding Rocket to Peek at Atmosphere of Venus

11.26.13 – Do Black Holes Come in Size Medium?

11.26.13 – STEREO Shows Comet ISON Approaching the Sun

11.22.13 – NASA's Solar Observing Fleet to Watch Comet ISON's Journey around the Sun

11.22.13 – STEREO Eyes Comet ISON

11.21.13 – How to Cook a Comet

11.21.13 – NASA Sees ‘Watershed’ Cosmic Blast in Unique Detail

11.20.13 – A Six-Minute Journey to Study Comet ISON

11.20.13 – New Digital Resources Teach Students About NASA's MMS Mission

11.19.13 – X-Class Solar Flare: Nov. 19

11.19.13 – Debris from stellar explosions in the Galaxy's fast lane

11.14.13 – Sunspots: Coming and Going

11.14.13 – WISE Catalog Just Got Wiser

11.14.13 – Nature Pulls a Fast One on Astronomers

11.13.13 – MAVEN Mission Investigates a Lost Mars

11.12.13 – MAVEN Instrument Seeks Answers at Microscopic Levels

11.10.13 – Veteran's Day Solar Flare

11.08.13 – Sun Unleashes Another X-class Flare

11.06.13 – Sun Sends Out a Significant Solar Flare

11.05.13 – NASA's IRIS Mission Data Now Publicly Available

11.04.13 – It's Like a Party in the Atmosphere!

10.31.13 – Something Flare-y This Way Comes: The Mini-Halloween Storms of 2013

10.31.13 – Galaxy Growth Examined Like Rings of a Tree

10.31.13 – What MAVEN Would See on Mars on Halloween

10.30.13 – Sun Emits Fourth X-class Flare in a Week

10.30.13 – Five Years of Great Discoveries for NASA's IBEX

10.30.13 – Suzaku Study Points to Early Cosmic ‘Seeding’

10.28.13 – Sun Continues to Emit Solar Flares

10.25.13 – The Effects of Space Weather on Aviation

10.25.13 – Sun Emits Third Flare in 2 Days

10.25.13 – Fast CME Accompanied Mid-level Solar Flare

10.24.13 – NASA Releases Movie of Sun's Canyon of Fire

10.21.13 – Sounding Rocket to Calibrate NASA's SDO Instrument

10.18.13 – Northern and Southern Aurora Seen from Sept. 30, 2013 CME

10.17.13 – Managing the Deluge of ‘Big Data’ From Space

09.27.13 – SUNRISE Offers New Insight on Sun's Atmosphere

09.26.13 – Several NASA Spacecraft Track Energy Through Space

09.25.13 – Astronomers Uncover ‘Transformer’ Pulsar

09.25.13 – Volatile pulsar reveals millisecond missing link

09.25.13 – INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity (AO-11 Data Rights)

09.23.13 – Ultra-fast Electrons Explain Third Radiation Ring Around Earth

09.20.13 – Communications Tests Go the Distance for MAVEN

09.26.13 – Several NASA Spacecraft Track Energy Through Space

09.16.13 – NASA ‘HEROES’ Set to Launch Balloon Solar/Space Imager

09.12.13 – NASA Spacecraft Embarks on Historic Journey Into Interstellar Space

09.12.13 – How Do We Know When Voyager Reaches Interstellar Space?

09.10.13 – ISS “Firestation” to Explore the Tops of Thunderstorms

09.10.13 – LADEE Project Manager Update: Initial Checkout Complete

09.08.13 – NASA's Three Long Duration Balloon Missions Working Over Antarctica

09.06.13 – NASA's Upcoming Lunar Mission: Testing a Multi-Use Spacecraft Design

09.05.13 – Coldest Brown Dwarfs Blur Star, Planet Lines

09.05.13 – Catching Black Holes on the Fly

09.05.13 – Eleven Spacecraft Show Interstellar Wind Changed Direction Over 40 Years

09.04.13 – NASA Ames Invites Media to LADEE's ‘Mission to the Moon’ Events

09.03.13 – NASA Invites Children, Families to Learn About NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission

08.30.13 – Van Allen Probes Mark First Anniversary

08.29.13 – NuSTAR Delivers the X-Ray Goods

08.28.13 – Rocketeers: Launch from NASA Goddard and Learn about NASA's Next Moon Mission

08.28.13 – NASA's SDO Mission Untangles Motion Inside the Sun

08.28.13 – iMaginetic Space!

08.22.13 – NASA Prepares for First Virginia Coast Launch to Moon

08.21.13 – Dr. David Chenette Appointed NASA Heliophysics Director

08.21.13 – NASA Spacecraft Reactivated to Hunt for Asteroids

08.21.13 – Another Day, Another Earth-Directed CME

08.21.13 – NASA Goddard Plays Major Role in NASA Mission to Moon

08.20.13 – Scientists Recreate Earth's Northern Lights

08.20.13 – Why LADEE Matters

08.20.13 – NASA Spacecraft Capture an Earth Directed Coronal Mass Ejection

08.19.13 – AIM Mission Extended

08.15.13 – NASA Voyager Statement about Competing Models to Explain Recent Spacecraft Data

08.08.13 – Heliophysics Nugget: Mapping Tons of Meteoric Dust in the Sky

08.08.13 – New NASA Mission to Help Us Learn How to Mine Asteroids

08.06.13 – NASA's MMS Stacked for Shock Tests

08.05.13 – NASA's Firestation on way to the International Space Station

08.05.13 – Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip

08.01.13 – Sounding Rocket to Study Active Regions on the Sun

08.01.13 – Monster Galaxies Lose Their Appetite With Age

07.31.13 – New Explorer Mission Chooses the ‘Just-Right’ Orbit

07.30.13 – Accreditation Open for Launches, Hurricane Study Media Day at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

07.25.13 – NASA's IRIS Telescope offers First Glimpse of Sun's Mysterious Atmosphere

07.25.13 – IRIS Mission Gets First Look at Sun's Mysterious Interface Region

07.25.13 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Discover Partical accelerator in the Heart of Earth's Radiation Belts

07.25.13 – NASA Mission Discovers Particle Accelerator in Heart of Van Allen Radiation Belts

07.25.13 – NASA's WISE Finds Mysterious Centaurs May Be Comets

07.25.13 – NASA's WISE Finds Mysterious Centaurs May Be Comets

07.24.13 – NASA Discusses First IRIS Solar Images in Media Teleconference

07.22.13 – Spacecraft Witness a Coronal Mass Ejection

07.19.13 – Large Coronal Hole Near the Sun's North Pole

07.18.13 – Opening a Window to Mars' Past

07.17.13 – Telescope Door on IRIS Opens

07.16.13 – Comet ISON's Dangerous Journey

07.15.13 – The Heart of Space Weather Observed in Action

07.12.13 – How To Share Sun Observations With the World

07.10.13 – NASA's IBEX Provides First View Of the Solar System's Tail

07.04.13 – Two Rockets Successfully Launched From Wallops

07.02.13 – NASA Sounding Rocket Daytime Dynamo Launch Postponed

07.02.13 – Coronal Mass Ejection Headed Toward Mercury and Venus

07.02.13 – NASA/ESA Movie Making Tool Hits The Million Mark

06.28.13 – NASA Decommissions Its Galaxy Hunter Spacecraft

06.28.13 – IRIS Solar Observatory Launches, Begins Mission

06.28.13 – Ames' Involvement in the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

06.27.13 – NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our ‘Solar Bubble’

06.27.13 – NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere Is Energized

06.27.13 – NASA Decommissions its Galaxy Hunter Spacecraft

06.26.13 – OSIRIS-REx Team Member Earns White House Recognition

06.24.13 – IRIS to Take Precise Look at Sun's Energy

06.21.13 – Five Years of Stereo Imaging for NASA's TWINS

06.20.13 – Sun Emits a Solstice CME

06.20.13 – ESA science missions continue in overtime

06.19.13 – The Science of NASA's Newest Solar Explorer

06.14.13 – NASA's MMS Achieves Major Mission Milestone

06.12.13 – SUNRISE Launched from Sweden

06.12.13 – The Moon and Sun: Two NASA Missions Join Images

06.12.13 – NASA Spacecraft Detect a Mars-Directed CME

06.11.13 – Black Hole Naps Amidst Stellar Chaos

06.11.13 – NASA Schedules Media Events and Coverage for New Solar Mission Launch

06.11.13 – IRIS Briefings and Events Coverage

06.08.13 – The Sun Emits an M5.9 Solar Flare

06.07.13 – Noctilucent Clouds Get an Early Start

06.04.13 – Officials Meet in Washington to Discuss Solar Storms, Great and Small

06.04.13 – NASA's IRIS Mission to Launch in Late June

06.04.13 – NASA's IRIS Mission to Launch in June

06.04.13 – NASA Prepares for Launch of Next Solar Satellite

06.03.13 – SUNRISE Over Sweden: Solar Observatory to Take Flight

06.03.13 – Swift Produces Best UV Maps of Nearest Galaxies

05.31.13 – NASA Invites Media to Space Weather Enterprise Forum

05.30.13 – NASA's MMS Team Assembles Final Observatory

05.29.13 – NASA IRIS: Improving Our View of the Sun

05.29.13 – NASA Hosts June 4 Media Briefing on Next Solar Mission Launch

05.26.13 – Sun Releases Slow CME

05.22.13 – NASA's SDO Observes Mid-level Solar Flare

05.21.13 – NASA's BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

05.20.13 – Auroras Visible in Continental U.S.

05.20.13 – NASA's IRIS Mission Readies For a New Challenge

05.20.13 – NASA Simulates ‘Pulsar-On-A-Table’ for Testing

05.20.13 – NASA Builds Unusual Testbed for Analyzing X-ray Navigation Technologies

05.17.13 – NASA's STEREO Detects a CME From the Sun

05.14.13 – Three X-class Flares in 24 Hours

05.13.13 – Impacts of Strong Solar Flares

05.10.13 – Three Years of SDO Images

05.10.13 – Annular Eclipse on May 10

05.09.13 – Marshall Islands Campaign Completed

05.07.13 – Second and Third Sounding Rockets Launched from the Marshall Islands

05.07.13 – NASA Extends Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contract

05.03.13 – Sun Emits Mid-Level Flare

05.03.13 – Record-Setting ‘Shockingly Bright’ Burst

05.03.13 – NASA's Fermi, Swift see ‘Shockingly Bright’ Burst

05.01.13 – First of Four Sounding Rockets Launched from the Marshall Islands

04.30.13 – Q&A with Robert Carvalho Flight Controller and Ground Data System Engineer for the IRIS Mission

04.25.13 – NASA Mission to Study What Disrupts Radio Waves

04.23.13 – Galaxy Goes Green in Burning Stellar Fuel

04.23.13 – NASA Opens Media Accreditation for California Solar Mission Launch

04.17.13 – NASA's Newest Solar Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg AFB for Launch

04.16.13 – Dying Supergiant Stars Implicated in Hours-long Gamma-Ray Bursts

04.16.13 – Spring Fling: Sun Emits a Mid-Level Flare

04.16.13 – NASA's Wind Mission Encounters ‘SLAMS’ Waves

04.15.13 – Celebrating CINDI on Its Fifth Anniversary

04.12.13 – NASA Selects Explorer Projects To Probe Earth's Upper Atmosphere

04.08.13 – Suzaku ‘Post-mortem’ Yields Insight into Kepler's

04.05.13 – NASA Taps the Power of Zombie Stars in Two-in-One

04.05.13 – New NASA Explorer Mission to Uncover Physics of Neutron Stars and Demonstrate Game-Changing Navigation Technology

04.05.13 – The Latest Incarnation of Celestial-Based Navigation

04.05.13 – NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation

04.03.13 – Final MAVEN Instrument Integrated to Spacecraft

04.03.13 – NASA Sounding Rocket Observes the Seeds of Noctilucent Clouds

04.02.13 – Black hole wakes up and has a light snack

03.29.13 – NASA's Swift Sizes Up Comet ISON

03.29.13 – SORCE: A Decade in the Sun

03.15.13 – NASA's Swift, Chandra Explore a Youthful ‘Star Wreck’

03.15.13 – Local Media Invited to NASA Outreach Activities at Maryland Science Center

03.11.13 – Closest Star System Found in a Century

03.11.13 – NASA's SDO Observes Earth, Lunar Transit in Same Day

03.08.13 – Solar Wind Energy Source Discovered

03.04.13 – High mass X-ray binaries trace the Milky Way's spiral arms

03.01.13 – Solar Cycle Update: Twin Peaks?

02.28.13 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Discover a Surprise Circling Earth

02.28.13 – Van Allen Probes Discover a New Radiation Belt

02.27.13 – NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin

02.25.13 – NASA Hosts Media Telecon About Black Hole Studies

02.25.13 – NASA Announces Media Briefing on New Van Allen Probes Results

02.21.13 – Deciphering the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind

02.20.13 – NASA's SDO Shows A Little Rain On the Sun

02.19.13 – Six Years of Space for THEMIS: Understanding the Magnetosphere Better Than Ever

02.14.13 – Tiny CREPT Instrument to Study the Radiation Belts

02.13.13 – UN Braces for Stormy Space Weather

02.11.13 – Year Three: NASA SDO Mission Highlights

02.09.13 – Earth-Directed CME Release by Long Duration Solar Flare

02.08.13 – MAVEN Begins Environmental Testing

02.07.13 – The Sun Produces Two CMEs

02.05.13 – WISE Feels the Heat from Orion's Sword

02.05.13 – Explaining the Ribbon in Space Discovered by IBEX

02.05.13 – A Major Step Forward in Explaining the Ribbon in Space Discovered by NASA/s IBEX Mission

02.04.03 – Twenty NASA Balloons Studying the Radiation Belts

01.31.13 – Building Four Spacecraft for One Mission

01.31.13 – NASA's SDO Provides First Sightings of How a CME Forms

01.30.13 – Our Eruptive Sun: Free Lecture at NASA Goddard

01.24.13 – Sun Shoots Out 2 Coronal Mass Ejections

01.24.13 – Working on Four Spacecraft Simultaneously

01.23.13 – NASA Telescope Observes How Sun Stores and Releases Energy

01.22.13 – Sun Primer: Why NASA Scientists Observes the Sun in Different Wavelengths

01.22.13 – How SDO Sees the Sun

01.18.13 – NASA's IRIS Spacecraft Is Fully Integrated

01.14.13 – New Sunspots Producing Space Weather

01.14.13 – NASA's SDO Has Plenty of Content for Ultra HD TVs

01.10.13 – NASA's GALEX Reveals the Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy

01.08.13 – Cluster Finds Turbulent Eddies May Warm the Solar Wind

01.08.13 – Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate

01.08.13 – NASA's Three Long Duration Balloon Missions Working Over Antarctica

01.07.13 – NASA's NuSTAR Catches Black Holes in Galaxy Web

01.07.13 – Galaxy's Gamma-Ray Flares Erupted Far From its Black Hole

01.03.13 – Solar Ballet on the Sun