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In the News – Year 2016

12.30.16 – Space Timekeeping: NASA's SDO Adds Leap Second to Master Clock
12.29.16 – NASA's NEOWISE Mission Spies One Comet, Maybe Two
12.14.16 – Revolutions in Understanding the Ionosphere, Earth's Interface to Space
12.14.16 – Preparing for the August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
12.07.16 – TIMED: 15 Years Exploring Our Interface to Space
12.02.16 – NASA's AIM Observes Early Noctilucent Ice Clouds Over Antarctica
12.01.16 – NASA's Sun-Observing IRIS Mission
11.30.16 – ScienceCasts: The Mystery of Coronal Heating
11.27.16 – No Balloons for JPL's Birthday, Just a ‘Satelloon’
11.22.16 – Two-year extensions confirmed for ESA's science missions
11.15.16 – Remembering the Historic Solar Storms of 2003
11.15.16 – When Planets Transit
11.14.16 – NASA Finds Unusual Origins of High-Energy Electrons
11.14.16 – “Cosmic Whistle” Packs a Surprisingly Energetic Punch
11.10.16 – NASA Space Telescopes Pinpoint Elusive Brown Dwarf
11.04.16 – NASA's MMS Breaks Guinness World Record
11.04.16 – NASA's NavCube Could Support an X-ray Communications Demonstration in Space — A NASA First
11.03.16 – NASA's SDO Performs Calibration Maneuvers
11.02.16 – When Computers Were Human
10.31.16 – Rains of Terror on Exoplanet HD 189733b
10.31.16 – NASA's SDO Catches a Lunar Transit
10.27.16 – NASA Missions Harvest a Passel of ‘Pumpkin’ Stars
10.25.16 – Study: Planet Orbiting Nearest Star Could be Habitable
10.25.16 – How to Read a STEREO Image
10.25.16 – STEREO: 10 Years of Revolutionary Solar Views
10.21.16 – NASA, Citizen Scientists Discover Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets
10.20.16 – Tracking Waves from Sunspots Gives New Solar Insight
10.19.16 – NASA, Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Host Discussion on Solar Hazards in Exploration
10.17.16 – Wayward Field Lines Challenge Solar Radiation Models
10.16.16 – Proxima Centauri Might Be More Sunlike Than We Thought
10.07.16 – MinXSS CubeSat Brings New Information to Study of Solar Flares
10.05.16 – NASA's TESS Mission Will Provide Exciting Exoplanet Targets for Years to Come
10.05.16 – NASA's SDO Watches Magnetic Arches Tower Over Sun's Surface
09.29.16 – NASA's Fermi Finds Record-breaking Binary in Galaxy Next Door
09.28.16 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot Electron Rainfall in Atmosphere
09.23.16 – NASA-Funded Sounding Rocket Solves One Cosmic Mystery, Reveals Another
09.22.16 – Highlights from a Decade of JAXA and NASA's Hinode Solar Observatory
09.22.16 – NASA Scientist to Discuss “A Space Weather Report” at Library of Congress Lecture
09.21.16 – NASA's MMS Achieves Closest-Ever Flying Formation
09.16.16 – NASA-Funded Scientific Ballooners Wrap Up Fourth and Final Campaign
09.15.16 – Studies Find Echoes of Black Holes Eating Stars
09.12.16 – NASA's THEMIS Sees Auroras Move to the Rhythm of Earth's Magnetic Field
09.02.16 – NASA's SDO Witnesses a Double Eclipse
09.01.16 – Images From Sun's Edge Reveal Origins of Solar Wind
08.24.16 – ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star
08.24.16 – NASA's WISE, Fermi Missions Reveal a Surprising Blazar Connection
08.22.16 – NASA Establishes Contact With STEREO Mission
08.17.16 – NASA-Funded Balloon Mission Begins Fourth Campaign
08.15.16 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Catch Rare Glimpse of Supercharged Radiation Belt
08.12.16 – NASA's Fermi Mission Expands its Search for Dark Matter
08.10.16 – SDO Status Update
08.05.16 – IRIS Spots Plasma Rain on Sun's Surface
08.04.16 – ESA, NASA's SOHO Sees Bright Sungrazer Comet
07.29.16 – NASA's Solar Probe Plus Mission Moves One Step Closer to Launch
07.28.16 – Chorus of Black Holes Sings in X-Rays
07.27.16 – NASA's Next Planet Hunter Will Look Closer to Home
07.27.16 – Astronomers Gain New Insight into Magnetic Field Of Sun and Its Kin
07.27.16 – Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE
07.27.16 – SDO Watches Twisting Solar Material Over the Sun's Surface
07.23.16 – SDO Sees Trio of Mid-Level Flares
07.22.16 – NASA's SDO Watches Bursts of Solar Material
07.20.16 – The Magnetosphere Has a Large Intake of Solar Wind Energy
07.19.16 – Hi-C to Show the Sun's Corona in Sharp Detail
07.19.16 – X Marks the Spot for Milky Way Formation
07.15.16 – NASA's SDO Takes a Spin
07.13.16 – Slow appearance of sunspots challenges theory
07.12.16 – Black Hole Makes Material Wobble Around It
07.11.16 – ‘Frankenstein’ Galaxy Surprises Astronomers
07.07.16 – An Unexpectedly Calm Hot Gas in the Center of the Perseus Cluster
07.06.16 – Hitomi Mission Charts Hot Winds of a Galaxy Cluster for the First Time
06.27.16 – SDO Watches Twisting Solar Material Over the Sun's Surface
06.22.16 – X-ray Echoes of a Shredded Star Provide Close-up of ‘Killer’ Black Hole
06.21.16 – Astronomers Find the First ‘Wind Nebula’ Around a Magnetar
06.08.16 – NASA's NICER Mission Arrives at Kennedy Space Center
05.26.16 – NASA's SDO Peers Into Huge Coronal Hole
05.23.16 – NASA: Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth
05.19.16 – NASA Mini-Balloon Mission Maps Migratory Magnetic Boundary
05.19.16 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Reveal Long-term Behavior of Earth's Ring Current
05.18.16 – IRIS Releases New Imagery of Mercury Transit
05.18.16 – Sounding Rocket EVE Supporting Tune-up of SDO EVE Instrument
05.12.16 – NASA Directly Observes Fundamental Process of Nature for 1st Time
05.12.16 – Magnetic Reconnection Throughout the Universe (Infographic)
05.10.16 – Mercury Transit (Composite Image)
05.10.16 – Swept Up in the Solar Wind
05.06.16 – Hubble Spies the Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 4394
05.03.16 – Satellites to See Mercury Enter Spotlight on May 9
05.03.16 – NASA's Marshall Center Simulates the Solar and Space Environment to Further Exploration
05.03.16 – NASA to Provide Coverage of May 9 Mercury Transit of the Sun
05.03.16 – NASA's SDO Watches Glowing Solar Material Arch Up and Out
04.28.16 – NASA's Fermi Telescope Helps Link Cosmic Neutrino to Blazar Blast
04.28.16 – Operation Plan of X-ray Astronomy Satellite ASTRO-H (Hitomi)
04.26.16 – SDO Captures Stunning View of April 17 Solar Flare
04.21.16 – Microscopic “Timers” Reveal Likely Source of Galactic Space Radiation
04.19.16 – Lone Planetary-Mass Object Found In Family of Stars
04.19.16 – Seeing Double: NASA Missions Measure Solar Flare from 2 Spots in Space
04.18.16 – NASA's SDO Captures Images of a Mid-Level Solar Flare
04.18.16 – NASA's Fermi Telescope Poised to Pin Down Gravitational Wave Sources
04.15.16 – Towering Magnetic Arches Seen by NASA's SDO
04.08.16 – NASA's SDO Spies an Elongated Coronal Hole
04.07.16 – NASA Celebrates 25 Years of Breakthrough Gamma-ray Science
04.05.16 – Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Delivers a Second Year of Data
03.30.16 – INTEGRAL sets limits on gamma rays from merging black holes
03.22.16 – NASA's SDO Sees Circular Outburst
03.17.16 – Astronomers Discover Colossal ‘Super Spiral’ Galaxies
03.15.16 – Picturing the Sun's Magnetic Field
03.14.16 – MMS Celebrates a Year in Space
03.07.16 – Citizen Scientists Help NASA Researchers Understand Auroras
03.03.16 – A Moment in the Sun's Atmosphere: NASA's Science During the March 2016 Total Solar Eclipse
02.29.16 – Eclipse Season Begins for NASA's SDO
02.29.16 – INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity (AO-14)
02.26.16 – NASA's IBEX Observations Pin Down Interstellar Magnetic Field
02.23.16 – Advanced NASA-Developed Instrument Flies on Japan's Hitomi
02.17.16 – NASA's SDO Sees Unraveling Solar Prominence
02.17.16 – New X-ray Space Observatory to Study Black Holes and History of Galaxy Clusters
02.12.16 – NASA Releases March 8 Total Solar Eclipse Visualizations
01.29.16 – NASA: Understanding the Magnetic Sun
01.26.16 – INTEGRAL X-rays Earth's aurora
01.22.16 – NASA's MMS Spotted from Tokyo
01.21.16 – NASA's SDO Sees Tangled Connections
01.19.16 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Revolutionize View of Radiation Belts
01.15.16 – Most Luminous Galaxy Is Ripping Itself Apart
01.15.16 – NASA's SDO Captures Cascading Magnetic Arches
01.12.16 – 2016 will be an exciting year for the ICON mission
01.07.16 – NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Sharpens its High-energy Vision
01.05.16 – Runaway Stars Leave Infrared Waves in Space
01.05.16 – Andromeda Galaxy Scanned with High-Energy X-ray Vision