News from 2001

DECEMBER

December 26, 2001: The gas between the stars -- Scientific American
December 25, 2001: Two theorists never in doubt -- Physics Today
December 23, 2001: Saturn aurora -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 21, 2001: Partial eclipse, cloudy day -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 12, 2001: Cluster quartet probes the secrets of the black aurora -- Spaceflight Now
December 12, 2001: A chip off the Sun -- Science@NASA
December 11, 2001: A new twist for stellar magnetism -- PhysicsWeb
December 11, 2001: Partial solar eclipse: Viewer's guide to Dec. 14 event -- Space.com
December 10, 2001: Io generates power and noise, but no magnetic field -- Spaceflight Now
December 10, 2001: Jupiter's Io generates power and noise, but no magnetic field -- NASA JPL
December 10, 2001: Fantastic voyage inside the Sun reveals hidden world of surprising complexity -- NASA GSFC
December 10, 2001: Cluster tunes into Earth's frequency, pinpoints location of auroral radio emissions -- NASA GSFC
December 6, 2001: The Sun's chilly impact on Earth -- NASA GSFC
December 6, 2001: November 2001 features two of the largest solar particle events of Solar Cycle 23 -- ACE News
December 4, 2001: Mars' lumpy magnetic field -- Spaceflight Now
December 3, 2001: Genesis spacecraft begins mission to collect samples of the Sun -- NASA HQ
December 3, 2001: Dueling auroras -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 1, 2001: Nuclei prompt stellar rethink -- PhysicsWeb

NOVEMBER

November 30, 2001: A TIGER in Antarctica -- NASA GSFC Imagine the Universe!
November 29, 2001: Coronal inflow -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 22, 2001: Dartmouth researcher uses cosmic rays to calculate erosion rates -- Dartmouth University
November 20, 2001: SOHO's latest surprise: Gas near the Sun heading the wrong way -- ESA
November 19, 2001: Particle physics telescope explodes -- BBC News
November 16, 2001: Genesis mission status -- NASA JPL
November 15, 2001: Genesis gets to the point -- NASA JPL
November 14, 2001: Auroras over both Earth poles -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 14, 2001: Neutrino findings indicate flaw in standard model -- UniSci
November 13, 2001: Old 'surfatron' concept might apply to cosmic rays -- UniSci
November 12, 2001: Milky Way may harbor high-energy cosmic ray sources -- UniSci
November 8, 2001: Under a sunspot -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 8, 2001: South Pole telescope to chart the path of neutrinos -- UniSci
November 7, 2001: Solar wind electron halo depletions at 90 degree pitch angle -- ACE News
November 7, 2001: First glimpse inside a sunspot -- BBC News
November 6, 2001: Burst of neutrinos seen preceding gamma ray bursts -- UniSci
November 6, 2001: The Sun's dark secret: How sunspots pull themselves together -- NASA GSFC
November 5, 2001: Aurora over Winnepeg -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 5, 2001: Genesis status report -- NASA JPL
November 1, 2001: Astroparticle physicists gain increased support -- Cern Courier

OCTOBER

October 30, 2001: Plucky IMP completes 28-year observing marathon -- NASA HQ
October 29, 2001: Plasma physics meeting this week one of the largest -- UniSci
October 26, 2001: Elements in the aftermath -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 26, 2001: 'Tis the season for auroras -- Science@NASA
October 25, 2001: Earth's auroras make rare joint appearance in a feature film -- NASA GSFC
October 19, 2001: Physicists count subatomic particles released by the Sun -- Eurekalert
October 16, 2001: Solar wind discoveries at solar maximum -- Spaceflight Now
October 11, 2001: Lunar soil yields evidence about Sun's dynamic workings -- Purdue University
October 11, 2001: Ulysses reaches the Sun's north pole -- ESA
October 9, 2001: Shock characteristics of expanding ICMEs -- ACE News
October 8, 2001: A Yukon aurora -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 8, 2001: Ulysses sees the Sun begin to quieten down -- ESA
October 3, 2001: New model of intergalactic magnetic fields -- Physics News Update

SEPTEMBER

September 29, 2001: The iron Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
September 24, 2001: A solar prominence erupts -- NASA GSFC APOD
September 18, 2001: ESA Cluster spacecraft fly into Earth's magnetotail -- UniSci
September 10, 2001: Space weather moves from observation toward prediction -- AGU
September 10, 2001: Yohkoh mission celebrates a decade of solar discovery -- NASA GSFC
September 7, 2001: Moon AND Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
September 6, 2001: Probing phenomena that go beyond the standard model -- UniSci

AUGUST

August 31, 2001: Ulysses forecasts weather at Sun's north pole -- NASA JPL
August 22, 2001: Heavy metal stars -- ESO
August 21, 2001: Antiprotons map nuclear surface -- Physical Review Focus
August 20, 2001: Astrophysicists receive $2 million from Department of Energy to explore supernovae -- LLNL
August 13, 2001: ESA's Cluster satellites tune in to the dawn chorus -- Spaceflight Now
August 10, 2001: Stormy space weather takes a toll on Earth's ozone -- Spaceflight Now
August 8, 2001: Genesis on its way to pick up a piece of the Sun -- Space.com
August 8, 2001: Spacecraft riding high to catch some rays -- NASA JPL
August 7, 2001: No escaping charged particles during solar maximum -- UniSci
August 6, 2001: Ulysses spacecraft observes surprising reach of solar activity -- SpaceDaily
August 1, 2001: Radio astronomers get their first glimpse of powerful solar storm -- NRAO
August 1, 2001: Stormy space weather takes a toll on ozone -- NASA GSFC
August 1, 2001: Solar storms destroy ozone, study reconfirms -- NASA GSFC
August 1, 2001: Cosmic rays linked to ozone hole -- New Scientist

JULY

July 25, 2001: Wind spacecraft flies through the spigot where the solar wind pours into Earth's magnetosphere -- NASA GSFC
July 25, 2001: NASA's Wind spacecraft flies through Earth's magnetic tail and captures rare event in action -- UC Berkeley
July 25, 2001: Satellite spies magnetic 'rubber band' -- CNN
July 23, 2001: Mining aluminum in the Universe -- NASA GSFC HEAPOW
July 23, 2001: GOES-M environmental spacecraft successfully launched -- NASA GSFC
July 23, 2001: Newest NOAA environmental satellite launches: satellite will detect harmful solar flares and gather weather data -- NASA GSFC
July 19, 2001: Iron from meteorites helps probe early solar nebula -- UniSci
July 17, 2001: Surfing and diving in the Earth's magnetosphere, Cluster celebrates one year of science excellence in orbit -- ESA
July 17, 2001: Exploring Earth's magnetosphere: The Cluster mission -- UniSci
July 17, 2001: Medieval sunspot image linked to 1182 Korean aurora -- UniSci
July 16, 2001: Surfing and diving in the Earth's magnetosphere, Cluster celebrates one year of science excellence in orbit -- ESA
July 12, 2001: Greater solar activity may bring U.S. more gray days -- NASA GSFC
July 12, 2001: Magnetic fields weave rings around stars -- STScI
July 11, 2001: Genesis set to catch a piece of the Sun -- NASA
July 10, 2001: New peek into differences between matter, antimatter -- UniSci
July 9, 2001: East meets west on "Double Star", a joint mission to explore Earth's magnetic field -- ESA
July 5, 2001: World record magnet 300,000 times strength of Earth's magnetic field -- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
July 3, 2001: Aphelion away! -- Science@NASA
July 1, 2001: Space station sends back first radiation data -- Spaceflight Now
July 1, 2001: Neutrinos have mass for sure -- Jupiter Scientific

JUNE

June 30, 2001: Hydrogen, helium, and the stars of M10 -- NASA GSFC APOD
June 29, 2001: Energetic particle fluences from solar wind to cosmic ray energies -- ACE News
June 29, 2001: ESA's next solar mission attracts followers to Tenerife -- Spaceflight Now
June 28, 2001: NASA taps Hopkins' Applied Physics Lab to develop solar missions -- NASA
June 27, 2001: Cluster's whispers probe the electrifying plasmasphere -- Spaceflight Now
June 26, 2001: Cluster's whispers probe the electrifying plasmasphere -- Spacer.com
June 26, 2001: New satellite will track storms on Earth and Sun -- CNN.com
June 25, 2001: New solar-powered Hyperion robot stays in sync with the Sun -- NASA HQ
June 22, 2001: Eclipse in African skies -- NASA GSFC APOD
June 21, 2001: Ulysses encounters massive coronal ejection from the Sun -- Spaceflight Now
June 21, 2001: Summer solstice marked at Stonehenge -- CNN.com
June 21, 2001: Diamond ring in the Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
June 20, 2001: Survey of electron events provides evidence of acceleration by coronal shocks -- ACE News
June 20, 2001: Solar neutrino problem solved -- Spaceflight Now
June 20, 2001: Total eclipse of the active Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
June 12, 2001: The biggest explosions in the solar system -- Science@NASA
June 11, 2001: Wind bubble found around young super star cluster -- Spaceflight Now
June 8, 2001: Next Pegasus rocket launch remains grounded -- Spaceflight Now
June 6, 2001: The Deep Space Network -- Science@NASA
June 5, 2001: Reconsidering interstellar dust and heavy elements -- UniSci

MAY

May 31, 2001: Jupiter particles' escape route found -- NASA JPL
May 21, 2001: The universal distribution center -- High Energy Astrophysics Picture of the Week
May 17, 2001: Solar neutrino astronomy -- NASA GSFC APOD
May 17, 2001: Changes in Sun's intensity tied to recurrent droughts in Maya region -- NSF
May 14, 2001: Moon helps hunt for mystery particles -- Space.com
May 4, 2001: The phantom torso -- Science@NASA
May 3, 2001: Far side of the Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
May 1, 2001: Space weather on Mars -- Science@NASA

APRIL

April 29, 2001: Ice fishing for cosmic neutrinos -- NASA GSFC APOD
April 27, 2001: The transparent Sun -- Science@NASA
April 19, 2001: Sunspot stack -- NASA GSFC APOD
April 16, 2001: Major solar flare erupts -- Spaceflight Now
April 15, 2001: Sun produces another powerful solar flare -- spacetoday.net
April 12, 2001: Sun shoots another mass of energy at Earth -- CNN.com
April 11, 2001: Large sunspot group AR 9393 -- NASA GSFC APOD
April 11, 2001: Intense solar activity continues -- SpaceRef.com
April 10, 2001: A coronal mass ejection associated with a powerful solar flare -- NASA GSFC
April 8, 2001: The big corona -- NASA GSFC APOD
April 7, 2001: Stereo Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
April 6, 2001: Aurora over New Zealand -- NASA GSFC APOD
April 5, 2001: On the origin of gold -- NASA GSFC APOD
April 4, 2001: Sun unleashes record flare, Earth safe from solar bullet -- Spaceflight Now
April 2, 2001: Aurora over clouds -- NASA GSFC APOD

MARCH

March 30, 2001: Equinox + 1 -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 30, 2001: Solar flare may switch on northern and southern lights -- Ananova
March 30, 2001: Scotland set for Northern Lights spectacular -- Ananova
March 29, 2001: Aurora Alaskan style -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 28, 2001: Kinks in Sun's waves unraveled -- NASA JPL
March 28, 2001: Jupiter radiation belts harsher than expected -- NASA JPL
March 27, 2001: Going to the ends of the Earth for cosmic rays: LSU researchers survive Antarctica -- LSU
March 20, 2001: The Grand ASCA Mission: 1993-2001 -- NASA GSFC Imagine the Universe!
March 15, 2001: Islands in the photosphere -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 13, 2001: A Sun pillar -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 12, 2001: One-year-old IMAGE satellite snaps first pictures from space of Earth's double aurora -- UC Berkeley
March 9, 2001: Postcards from Jupiter: New aurora details seen -- NASA JPL
March 8, 2001: Earth's magnetic field was intense in dinosaur age -- CNN
March 5, 2001: Return of the flying bird -- NASA GSFC HEAPOW
March 2, 2001: Early Earth's magnetic field stronger than believed -- UniSci
March 1, 2001: Maximum Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 1, 2001: High charge states of iron as a tracer of interplanetary coronal mass ejections -- ACE News

FEBRUARY

February 21, 2001: Sun to illuminate inner sanctuary of pharaoh's temple -- National Geographic
February 21, 2001: Solar heartbeat used to unravel star's mysteries -- NASA GSFC
February 19, 2001: Why so little antimatter? Physicists just don't know -- UniSci
February 16, 2001: How did matter come to dominate the Universe? -- UC Santa Cruz
February 15, 2001: The Sun does a flip -- Science@NASA
February 10, 2001: Aurora astern -- NASA GSFC APOD
February 5, 2001: Planetary nebula Mz3: The ant nebula -- NASA GSFC APOD
February 5, 2001: Volcanoes and auroras glow in eclipse movie of Jupiter's moon Io -- NASA JPL
February 1, 2001: Insect-like space structure previews our Sun's death -- NASA JPL

JANUARY

January 31, 2001: Earth's plasmasphere -- NASA GSFC APOD
January 31, 2001: The solar wind at Mars -- Science@NASA
January 29, 2001: The disappearance of ACR oxygen with solar maximum -- ACE News
January 29, 2001: An airplane in front of the Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
January 29, 2001: What puts the brakes on madly spinning stars? -- Univ. of WI
January 29, 2001: Struggle seen as Sun switches magnetic field polarity -- UniSci
January 26, 2001: Ulysses witnesses the Sun's magnetic struggle -- ESA
January 26, 2001: IMAGE reveals plasmasphere shoulder, trough and tail -- UniSci
January 25, 2001: Space 'weather' close-up -- BBC News
January 25, 2001: Cassini camera sees the invisible during Jupiter flyby -- Spaceflight Now
January 25, 2001: Magnetic dynamo appears to shape planetary nebulae -- UniSci
January 25, 2001: Earth's invisible magnetic tail -- Science@NASA
January 23, 2001: Galileo wrapping up Jovian magnetosphere study -- Spaceflight Now
January 20, 2001: Helios helium -- NASA GSFC APOD
January 20, 2001: International team building next explorer to study Sun -- Spaceflight Now
January 18, 2001: Studying our Earth and Sun through the ionosphere -- UniSci
January 18, 2001: Eye damage from viewing eclipse less than expected -- UniSci
January 18, 2001: 11 key questions about the universe -- PhysicsWeb
January 16, 2001: A shocking time for Cluster 2 -- Spaceflight Now
January 12, 2001: Ballooning for cosmic rays -- Science@NASA
January 9, 2001: Unusual mixing in red giants identified as unexpected contributor to mysterious source of lithium -- NOAO
January 9, 2001: Evidence presented for new supernova explosion model -- Spaceflight Now
January 8, 2001: Rare spherical planetary nebula provides step toward accurate measurement of chemical compositions in stars -- NOAO
January 8, 2001: A total eclipse of the Sun -- on the Moon! -- Science@NASA
January 7, 2001: Top 10 weirdest things in space - Number 8 is high-energy cosmic rays -- Space.com
January 5, 2001: Completely dark galaxies -- Spaceflight Now
January 5, 2001: Galaxies may have darker doubles -- BBC
January 4, 2001: Earth at perihelion -- Science@NASA
January 4, 2001: NASA's Cassini listens to eerie new 'sounds' of space near Jupiter -- NASA JPL
January 1, 2001: High energies and high altitudes -- CERN Courier

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