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In the News – Year 2015

12.17.15 – NASA's MMS Delivers Promising Initial Results

12.17.15 – NuSTAR's View of Galaxy 1068

12.17.15 – NuSTAR Finds Cosmic Clumpy Doughnut Around Black Hole

12.16.15 – El Niño has effects all the way to the edge of the atmosphere.

12.15.15 – NASA's Fermi Satellite Kicks Off a Blazar-detecting Bonanza

12.14.15 – Plunging into the Ionosphere: Satellite's Last Days Improve Orbital Decay Predictions

12.11.15 – Saving NASA's STEREO-B: The 189-million-mile Road to Recovery

12.04.15 – SDO Sees Flourishing Magnetic Loops

12.01.15 – SOHO Celebrates 20 Years of Space-based Science

12.01.15 – A Look Back at NASA Solar Missions

11.25.15 – SDO Sees a Dark Filament Circle

11.23.15 – NEOWISE Observes Carbon Gases in Comets

11.19.15 – NASA's STEREO-A Resumes Normal Operations

11.18.15 – SDO Sees Brightening Magnetic Loops

11.13.15 – NASA's Fermi Mission Finds Hints of Gamma-ray Cycle in an Active Galaxy

11.12.15 – NASA's Fermi Satellite Detects First Gamma-ray Pulsar in Another Galaxy

11.11.15 – Secondhand Spacecraft Has Firsthand Asteroid Experience

11.10.15 – NASA's Beach Ball Coronagraph

11.09.15 – SDO Sees Active Region Outbursts

11.06.15 – NASA's Swift Spots its Thousandth Gamma-ray Burst

11.03.15 – NASA Observes Auroras Across Canada

11.03.15 – Whopping Galaxy Cluster Spotted with Help of NASA Telescopes

11.02.15 – SDO Sees Active Solar Regions Blossoming

10.30.15 – Snowing in Space?

10.30.15 – Finding New Worlds with a Play of Light and Shadow

10.29.15 – Voyager 1 Helps Solve Interstellar Medium Mystery

10.28.15 – How TIMED Flies: Unexpected Trends in Carbon Data

10.27.15 – Black Hole Has Major Flare

10.26.15 – Suzaku Finds Common Chemical Makeup at Largest Cosmic Scales

10.26.15 – SDO Sees Very Long Filament

10.23.15 – 20 Intriguing Exoplanets

10.21.15 – Destroyed Star Rains onto Black Hole, Winds Blow it Back

10.20.15 – IBEX Sheds New Light on Solar System Boundary

10.20.15 – Most Earth-Like Worlds Have yet to be Born, According to Theoretical Study

10.16.15 – Hefty Prominence Eruption Observed by SDO

10.16.15 – NASA's MMS Spacecraft Achieve Tightest Flying Formation Ever

10.14.15 – Coronal Hole Front and Center

10.13.15 – Comet Encke: A Solar Windsock Observed by NASA's STEREO

10.09.15 – Fast Solar Wind Causes Aurora Light Shows

10.07.15 – NASA Measuring the Pulsating Aurora

10.07.15 – NASA Scientist to Discuss “Scouting for Exoplanets with TESS” at Library of Congress Lecture

10.02.15 – NASA's SDO Sees Sun Emit Mid-Level Flare Oct. 1

09.30.15 – Real Martians: How to Protect Astronauts from Space Radiation on Mars

09.30.15 – Mechanism of Explosions and Plasma Jets Associated with Sunspot Formation Revealed

09.29.15 – SDO Views Active Region Loops

09.28.15 – NASA's SDO Captures Image of Mid-Class Solar Flare

09.25.14 – CME Week: How NASA Watches CMEs

09.24.14 – CME Week: Mapping the Journey of a Giant Coronal Mass Ejection

09.23.15 – NASA's BARREL Team Returns from Sweden

09.21.14 – CME Week: The Difference Between Flares and CMEs

09.17.15 – TIMED Mission Celebrates 5,000 Days of Continuous Data Collection, Sixth Extended Mission

09.16.15 – SDO Sees 3 Coronal ‘Holes’

09.16.15 – Funky Light Signal From Colliding Black Holes Explained

09.15.15 – ESA/NASA Solar Observatory Discovers Its 3,000th Comet

09.14.15 – NASA's SDO Catches a Double Photobomb

09.10.15 – Partial Solar Eclipse on Sept. 13, 2015; NASA Releases Visualizations of 2017 Total Eclipse

09.03.14 – NASA's STEREO “Winks” and Provides Stunning Solar Imagery

09.02.15 – FUV Ships to Belgium for Alignment, Environmental Tests and Calibration in the Far Ultra Violet

08.25.15 – IRIS and Hinode: A Stellar Research Team

08.24.15 – NASA SDO: Images of a Mid-Level Solar Flare

08.14.15 – NASA Scientists Help Understand Newly Discovered Planet

08.11.15 – BARREL Team Arrives in Sweden for Balloon Mini-Campaign

08.10.15 – Marshall Astrophysicists Study Intricate Activity of Solar X-ray Jets

08.05.15 – Hidden in Plain Sight

08.03.15 – Tracking A Mysterious Group of Asteroid Outcasts

07.31.15 – Exoplanets 20/20: Looking Back to the Future

07.30.15 – NASA Selects Proposals to Study Neutron Stars, Black Holes and More

07.30.15 – Nearing 3000 Comets: SOHO Solar Observatory Greatest Comet Hunter of All Time

07.29.15 – NASA's MMS Formation Will Give Unique Look at Magnetic Reconnection

07.16.15 – STEREO-A Spacecraft Returns Data From the Far Side of the Sun

07.16.15 – NASA Cites the Return of the STEREO-A Spacecraft

07.10.15 – NASA's OSIRIS-REx Passes Another Review

07.10.15 – NASA's Fermi Sees Record Flare from a Black Hole in a Distant Galaxy

07.09.15 – NASA's Swift Reveals a Black Hole Bull's-eye

07.09.15 – Scientists Study Atmosphere of Venus through Transit Images

07.08.15 – Second Instrument Delivered for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission

07.08.15 – Searing Sun Seen in X-rays

07.08.15 – NASA Data Shows Surfer-shaped Waves in Near-Earth Space

07.06.15 – NuSTAR Stares Deep into Hidden Lairs of Black Holes

07.06.15 – Astronomers use cosmic gravity to create a ‘black-hole-scope’

07.02.15 – Astronomers Predict Fireworks from Rare Stellar Encounter in 2018

07.01.15 – ‘Solarium’ Goes to the Big Apple

06.30.15 – NASA Missions Monitor a Waking Black Hole

06.30.15 – NASA Signs Scientific and Education Agreements with Brazil

06.26.15 – IRIS Celebrates Year Two With Ongoing Scientific Discoveries

06.25.15 – Can Planets Be Rejuvenated Around Dead Stars?

06.25.15 – SDO Sees Mid-level Solar Flare

06.25.15 – Monster black hole wakes up after 26 years

06.24.15 – Earth Directed CME Lights the Skies

06.23.15 – NASA Simulation Suggests Black Holes May Make Ideal Dark Matter Labs

06.22.15 – Sun Unleashes Mid-level Flare

06.19.15 – Still a Filament Arrow?

06.17.15 – Moon Engulfed in Permanent, Lopsided, Dust Cloud

06.12.15 – NASA, University Researchers Discuss Search for Life in Solar System, Beyond

06.09.15 – New Tool Could Track Space Weather 24 Hours Before Reaching Earth

06.05.15 – NASA Scientist to Discuss “Understanding Magnetic Storms” at Library of Congress Lecture

06.03.15 – Charting the Milky Way From the Inside Out

05.22.15 – Coronal Loops Over a Sunspot Group

05.21.15 – NASA's WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe

05.20.15 – NASA Spacecraft Capture Rare, Early Moments of Baby Supernovae

05.19.15 – Using a Sounding Rocket to Help Calibrate NASA's SDO

05.12.15 – DHS/NASA Space Weather Twitter Chat

05.12.15 – NASA's Multi-Purpose NICER/SEXTANT Mission on Track for 2016 Launch

05.07.15 – Star Explosion Is Lopsided, Finds NASA's NuSTAR

05.06.15 – NASA's SDO Observes ‘Cinco de Mayo’ Solar Flare

05.06.15 – IRIS Celebrates 10,000th Orbit

04.29.15 – Extra X-rays at the Hub of Our Milky Way Galaxy

04.29.15 – NASA's NuSTAR Captures Possible ‘Screams’ from Zombie Stars

04.28.15 – The Fearsome Foursome: Technologies Enable Ambitious MMS Mission

04.28.15 – Strong Evidence For Coronal Heating Theory Presented at 2015 TESS Meeting

04.28.15 – EUNIS' View of the Sun

04.22.15 – NASA Goddard Team Sets High Flying Record with Use of GPS

04.21.15 – NASA's NExSS Coalition to Lead Search for Life on Distant Worlds

04.21.15 – SDO Shows Active Regions Across Front of Sun

04.16.15 – White Dwarf May Have Shredded Passing Planet

04.10.15 – Accelerating Universe: Not As Fast?

04.09.15 – NASA Study Finds Small Solar Eruptions Can Have Profound Effects On Unprotected Planets

04.08.15 – NASA Gives Green Light for Johns Hopkins APL to Begin Building Solar Probe Plus Spacecraft

04.08.15 – Seasonal, Year-Long Cycles Seen on the Sun

04.07.15 – The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water

04.02.15 – Suzaku Studies Supernova ‘Crime Scene,’ Shows a Single white Dwarf to Blame

03.26.15 – Astronomers Upgrade Their Cosmic Light Bulbs

03.26.15 – NASA Asteroid Hunter Spacecraft Data Available to Public

03.25.15 – Suzaku, Herschel Link a Black-hole ‘Wind’ to a Galactic Gush of Star-forming Gas

03.24.15 – NASA Funded Mission Studies the Sun in Soft X-Rays

03.19.15 – Spring Solar Eclipse Visible In Europe on March 20

03.18.15 – National Air and Space Museum Debuts Must-see Sun Video Wall

03.18.15 – NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Solar Probe Plus Mission

03.17.15 – NASA's SDO Sees Two Coronal Holes

03.16.15 – MMS: Five Years, Four Spacecraft, Thousands of Inspired Students

03.13.15 – Key Tests At NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Lab Ensure Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Instrument Operations

03.13.15 – NASA Spacecraft in Earth's Orbit, Preparing to Study Magnetic Reconnection

03.13.15 – SET - Space Environment Testbeds

03.12.15 – Launch Begins MMS Mission in Spectacular Fashion

03.11.15 – Sun Emits Significant Solar Flare

03.11.15 – NASA Goddard Provides Superfast Sensors for New MMS Mission

03.10.15 – SDO Captures Images Of Mid-Level Solar Flares

03.10.15 – NASA to Investigate Magnetic Explosions

03.10.15 – MMS: Studying Magnetic Reconnection Near Earth

03.10.15 – NASA's Independent Verification and Validation Program Hosts Launch Event for Local Middle School Students

03.09.15 – INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity (AO-13)

03.03.15 – The Sun Ushers in March with a Mid-class Flare

03.03.15 – NASA-Funded Study Finds Two Solar Wind Jets in the Heliosphere

02.27.15 – Living on the Edge: Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center

02.26.15 – NASA Sets Coverage for Launch of Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

02.25.15 – Pre-Launch Briefing for the MMS Mission

02.25.15 – NASA Spacecraft Prepares for March 12 Launch to Study Earth’s Dynamic Magnetic Space Environment

02.24.15 – SOHO Sees Something New Near The Sun

02.24.15 – UPDATE — NASA Reschedules MMS Briefing to 3 p.m. EST Feb. 25

02.22.15 – NASA Hosts Media Briefing on Mission to Study Dynamic Magnetic System Around Earth

02.19.15 – New NASA Movie on the MMS Mission

02.19.15 – NASA, ESA Telescopes Give Shape to Furious Black Hole Winds

02.18.15 – New NASA Movie on the MMS Mission

02.11.15 – New Videos Highlight NASA SDO's Fifth Anniversary

02.10.15 – NASA's SDO Sees Giant Filament on the Sun

02.10.15 – NASA Media Accreditation Now Open for Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

02.10.15 – NASA Offers News Media Access to MMS Spacecraft Feb. 18

02.10.15 – NASA Invites Children, Families to Learn about NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission

02.06.15 – NOAA's DSCOVR: Offering A New View of the Solar Wind

01.28.15 – ASSP Sounding Rocket Launches Successfully from Alaska

01.26.15 – Marshall Space Flight Center Scientist Awarded American Astronomical Society Prize for Solar Studies

01.23.15 – INTEGRAL Manoeuvres for the Future

01.22.15 – SOHO and Hinode Offer New Insight Into Solar Eruptions

01.21.15 – SOHO and Hinode Offer New Insight Into Solar Eruptions

01.20.15 – SDO Instrument Collects 100-Millionth Image

01.16.15 – NuSTAR Principal Investigator Receives Astrophysics Prize

01.15.15 – NEOWISE: A Yearlong Look at the Sky

01.14.15 – NEOWISE: A Yearlong Look at the Sky

01.13.15 – First Notable Solar Flare of 2015

01.09.15 – NASA Invites Community to Learn about Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

01.08.15 – Will the Real Monster Black Hole Please Stand Up?

01.06.15 – Volunteer ‘Disk Detectives’ Top 1 Million Classifications of Possible Planetary Habitats

01.05.15 – Hubble Discovers That Milky Way Core Drives Wind at 2 Million Miles Per Hour

01.05.15 – NASA Observatories Take an Unprecedented Look into Superstar Eta Carinae