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News from 2011

DECEMBER

December 31, 2011: Comey Lovejoy and the ISS -- APOD
December 28, 2011: Tracking the magnetic south pole -- Nature
December 27, 2011: M27: The Dumbbell Nebula -- APOD
December 26, 2011: Voyager 1 speeds toward the brink of interstellar space -- NPR
December 23, 2011: Shell galaxy NGC 7600 -- APOD
December 22, 2011: Mercury's magnetic field -- nipped in the bud -- Max Planck Institute
December 22, 2011: LHC reports discovery of its first new particle -- BBC
December 22, 2011: Through a sun tunnel -- APOD
December 22, 2011: How to build a gamma-ray laser with antimatter hybrid -- New Scientist
December 21, 2011: What Higgs result means for dark matter conspiracy -- New Scientist
December 19, 2011: Dropping coronal temperatures in the protracted Cycle 23-24 solar minimum -- ACE News
December 18, 2011: Hints of Higgs from the Large Hadron Collider -- APOD
December 18, 2011: Fear no supernova -- Astrobiology
December 17, 2011: Comet Lovejoy: Sungrazing survivor -- APOD
December 16, 2011: Revealing how the elements were forged -- Astrobiology
December 16, 2011: Comet Lovejoy plunges into the sun and survives -- NASA
December 14, 2011: More clues in the hunt for the Higgs -- Caltech
December 14, 2011: Curiosity and the solar storm -- NASA
December 13, 2011: ATLAS and CMS experiments present Higgs search status -- Max Planck Institute
December 13, 2011: AI to predict sun's next attack on Earth -- New Scientist
December 13, 2011: Are pulsars giant 'neutromagnets'? -- Physics World
December 10, 2011: Voyager enters cosmic purgatory -- Astrobiology
December 8, 2011: Solar storms could 'sandblast' the moon -- Astrobiology
December 6, 2011: The magnetic field pattern of the Milky Way -- Max Planck Institute
December 5, 2011: The return of energetic 3He in the inner heliosphere -- ACE News
December 5, 2011: A memorable aurora over Norway -- APOD
December 5, 2011: Voyager sets sights on Milky Way -- Physics World
December 3, 2011: Earth flips magnetic poles all the time -- Astrobiology
December 2, 2011: Solar eclipse over Antarctica -- APOD

NOVEMBER

November 29, 2011: Earth's bow shock is remarkably thin -- Astrobiology
November 28, 2011: In the heart of Cygnus, NASA's Fermi reveals a cosmic-ray cocoon -- NASA
November 25, 2011: A glimpse of CLIMSO -- APOD
November 24, 2011: Caught in the afterglow -- APOD
November 23, 2011: Measuring the radiation on Mars -- Astrobiology
November 23, 2011: Physicists set strongest limit on mass of dark matter -- Brown University
November 23, 2011: LHC antimatter anomaly hints at new physics -- New Scientist
November 23, 2011: Science Casts: Terrifying auroras -- Science@NASA
November 23, 2011: Another origin for cosmic rays -- Sky & Telescope
November 21, 2011: Around the world in 90 minutes -- APOD
November 21, 2011: Faster-than-light neutrinos? New test confirms accuracy of experiment's initial measurement in flight time of neutrinos -- Science Daily
November 19, 2011: Galaxies are the ultimate recyclers -- Astrobiology
November 17, 2011: World's most difficult chemical experiment: The struggle to discover the secret of super-heavy elements -- Science Daily
November 17, 2011: Racing to be the first to create the world's heaviest element -- Science Daily
November 16, 2011: Killer solar flares won't destroy Earth in 2012 -- Astrobiology
November 16, 2011: NGC 7822 in Cepheus -- APOD
November 16, 2011: Cosmic particle accelerators get things going -- ESA
November 16, 2011: Stellar midwives -- Max Planck Institute
November 15, 2011: Orange sun scintillating -- APOD
November 15, 2011: Why solar wind is rhombic-shaped: Temperature and energy equipartition in cosmic plasmas explained -- Science Daily
November 14, 2011: Waterfall, moonbow, and aurora from Iceland -- APOD
November 12, 2011: Sunspot castle -- APOD
November 11, 2011: 2012: Killer solar flares are a physical impossibility, experts say -- Science Daily
November 10, 2011: Pristine relics of the Big Bang spotted -- Physics World
November 9, 2011: Three new elements named -- Astrobiology
November 9, 2011: How the moon got its magnetism -- Science News
November 9, 2011: Physicists chip away at mystery of antimatter imbalance -- Science Daily
November 8, 2011: Jumping sundogs over thunderclouds -- APOD
November 8, 2011: For Copernicus, a 'perfect heaven' put sun at center -- NPR
November 7, 2011: Solar wind sonification -- ACE News
November 6, 2011: Ancient galaxies are rich in elements -- Astrobiology
November 6, 2011: Orange sun oozing -- APOD
November 4, 2011: A 360 degree view of an X-class flare and a CME -- NASA
November 1, 2011: Hinode's first light...and five more years -- NASA

OCTOBER

October 28, 2011: October skylights -- APOD
October 27, 2011: Solar cycle primer -- NASA
October 25, 2011: Beautiful red aurora -- NASA
October 25, 2011: STEREO mission celebrates five incredible years of science -- NASA
October 20, 2011: Space weather prediction model improves forecasting -- Science Daily
October 18, 2011: Dark matter mystery deepens -- Astronomy
October 17, 2011: Radial variation of the solar wind temperature-speed relationship -- ACE News
October 16, 2011: A picturesque Venus transit -- APOD
October 13, 2011: Leading light: What would faster-than-light neutrinos mean for physics? -- Scientific American
October 11, 2011: NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula -- APOD
October 11, 2011: Sun-watchers hope giant telescope will get green light -- Nature
October 7, 2011: Measureing elusive solar neutrinos flowing through the Earth, physicists learn more about the sun -- Science Daily
October 6, 2011: M82: Starburst galaxy with a superwind --APOD
October 6, 2011: ESA to collaborate with NASA on solar science mission -- NASA
October 5, 2011: Comet and CME on the sun -- APOD
October 5, 2011: Most ancient supernovas are discovered -- Tel Aviv University
October 5, 2011: Faster-than-light neutrinos face time trial -- Nature
October 4, 2011: Dark and bright: ESA chooses next two science missions -- ESA
October 4, 2011: Nikolaos Paschalidis: Miniaturized details and the big picture -- NASA
October 4, 2011: Isotope ranking reveals leading labs -- Nature
October 3, 2011: Dark matter movie from the Bolshoi simulation -- APOD
October 3, 2011: High and low -- HEAPOW
October 1, 2011: UMD's 'WaterShed' wins Solar Decathlon 2011 -- University of Maryland

SEPTEMBER

September 30, 2011: Cloudy night of the northern lights -- APOD
September 30, 2011: The Pulled Groin Extrapolation -- Big Blog Theory
September 30, 2011: Tevatron shuts down -- Physics World
September 30, 2011: The seven suns of Rome -- Nature
September 29, 2011: MESSENGER data paints new picture of Mercury's magnetic field -- University of British Columbia
September 28, 2011: Violent sunspot group AR 1302 unleashes a flare -- APOD
September 28, 2011: Sunspot 1302 is big, bad, and coming our way -- Astrobiology
September 27, 2011: Sunspot 1302 continues to turn toward Earth -- NASA
September 27, 2011: Speedy neutrinos challenge physicists -- Nature
September 26, 2011: Light OPERA; or faster? -- HEAPOW
September 26, 2011: 'Antimagnet' joins list of invisibility approaches -- BBC
September 25, 2011: A large tsunami shock wave on the sun -- APOD
September 24, 2011: Neutrinos break the speed of light? -- Astrobiology
September 23, 2011: September's aurora -- APOD
September 23, 2011: Pole flips tied to plate tectonics -- Science News
September 23, 2011: Space storms to pose greater risk to flyers and astronauts -- Science
September 23, 2011: Solar activity can affect re-entry of UARS satellite -- Science Daily
September 22, 2011: Active reconnection by a quiet sun -- ACE News
September 22, 2011: The Skank Reflex Analysis & the Infestation Hypothesis -- Big Blog Theory
September 20, 2011: Six CMEs in 24 hours -- NASA
September 20, 2011: NASA's WISE mission captures black hole's wildly flaring jet -- NASA
September 19, 2011: The secret lives of solar flares -- Science@NASA
September 18, 2011: A sharp view of the sun -- APOD
September 15, 2011: ScienceCasts: Secret lives of solar flares -- Science@NASA
September 13, 2011: Shedding light on the mystery of dark matter -- Nature
September 13, 2011: Intense magnetic fields probably formed shortly after Big Bang, researchers say -- Science Daily
September 12, 2011: Cosmic crashes forge gold -- Astrobiology
September 12, 2011: Solar activity subsiding - auroras ablaze -- NASA
September 11, 2011: On the origin of gold -- APOD
September 8, 2011: CRESST uncovers hint of dark matter -- Physics World
September 7, 2011: SDSS J102915+172927: A star that should not exist -- APOD
September 7, 2011: Something new on the sun: SDO spots a late phase in solar flares -- NASA
September 5, 2011: HH 47: A young star jet expands -- APOD
September 1, 2011: M27: Not a comet -- APOD

AUGUST

August 30, 2011: The coldest brown dwarf -- APOD
August 28, 2011: A jet from galaxy M87 -- APOD
August 28, 2011: Don't panic about the missing Higgs -- for now -- New Scientist
August 26, 2011: Linked solar eruptions explained -- Nature
August 26, 2011: Gas clouds may have created biggest cosmic explosions -- New Scientist
August 25, 2011: Using ionic charge states as a thermometer in the solar corona -- Caltech
August 25, 2011: Berkeley scientists discover an "instant cosmic classic" supernova -- Berkeley Lab
August 25, 2011: Surprise difference in neutrino and antineutrino mass lessening with new measurements from a Fermilab experiment -- Science Daily
August 24, 2011: Sunspot breakthrough -- NASA
August 24, 2011: Cloud formation may be linked to cosmic rays -- Nature
August 23, 2011: Aurora over Greenland -- APOD
August 23, 2011: The sun roils over Mexico -- Bad Astronomy blog
August 23, 2011: Turtles surf the magnetic ocean -- New Scientist
August 23, 2011: World-record pulsed magnetic field achieved -- Science Daily
August 18, 2011: A sun pillar over Ontario -- APOD
August 18, 2011: Space strom tracked from sun to Earth -- NASA
August 18, 2011: Spacecraft sees solar storm engulf Earth -- Science@NASA
August 18, 2011: Cubic neutrons might find it hip to be square -- Physics World
August 17, 2011: Cosmological evolution of dark matter is similar to that of visible matter -- Science Daily
August 16, 2011: China-US neutrino facility opens -- Physics World
August 15, 2011: X-class -- NASA HEAPOW
August 10, 2011: Antimatter found orbiting Earth -- a first -- National Geographic
August 9, 2011: Sun unleashes X6.9 class flare -- NASA
August 4, 2011: Introducing the 'antimagnet' -- Physics World
August 3, 2011: Half of Earth's heat from radioactive decay -- Astrobiology
August 1, 2011: Friday night light -- M9.3 class flare -- NASA

JULY

July 27, 2011: ExoPlanet aurora -- Astrobiology
July 27, 2011: SDO spots extra energy in the sun's corona -- NASA
July 25, 2011: Rare coupling of magnetic and electric properties in a single material -- Brookhaven National Laboratory
July 25, 2011: New laser technique makes cold positronium -- Physics World
July 23, 2011: Asymmetric quarks defy standard model of physics -- Nature
July 22, 2011: Surprise LHC blip hints at Higgs -- again -- New Scientist
July 22, 2011: Sun's death rattle may hurl comets out of solar system -- New Scientist
July 22, 2011: Landmarks: Ghostly influence of distant magnetic field -- Physical Review Focus
July 21, 2011: Exoplanet aurora: An out-of-this-world sight -- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
July 21, 2011: Particle discovery fills a gap -- Science News
July 20, 2011: Strongest 'split magnet' built in the US -- BBC
July 20, 2011: Cosmic superbubble carved by stellar winds from bright young stars and supernova shockwaves -- Science Daily
July 19, 2011: Two videos of the sun -- Bad Astronomy Blog
July 19, 2011: Radioactive decay accounts for half of Earth's heat -- Physics World
July 14, 2011: New ways to measure magnetism around the sun -- NASA
July 14, 2011: New spin revealed on mysterious antimatter -- Space.com
July 11, 2011: Dark fireworks on the sun -- NASA
July 11, 2011: Clumps in the wind -- HEAPOW
July 11, 2011: Modeling solar energetic particles using ACE and STEREO observations of the April 3, 2010 event -- ACE News
July 9, 2011: Cosmic dust factories -- Astrobiology
July 8, 2011: Temperature difference leads to magnetism -- Physical Review Focus
July 4, 2011: Earth's core is melting and freezing -- Astrobiology
July 4, 2011: What's going on with the sun? -- Physics World

JUNE

June 29, 2011: Dark matter may solve 'radio filaments' mystery -- BBC
June 27, 2011: Solar wind sheds light on early solar system -- Physics World
June 27, 2011: Four-way stop sign -- HEAPOW
June 25, 2011: The breath of the solar system's birth -- Astrobiology
June 24, 2011: Solstice flare and CME -- NASA
June 23, 2011: NASA mission suggest sun and planets constructed differently -- NASA
June 23, 2011: Can humans sense Earth's magnetism? -- Astrobiology
June 23, 2011: Proton somersault study could explain why matter still exists -- Wired
June 22, 2011: Getting ready for the next big solar storm -- NASA
June 20, 2011: As the sun awakens, the power grid stands vulnerable -- Washington Post
June 20, 2011: A neutrino-flavored universe -- Astrobiology
June 18, 2011: Voyager on the edge -- Astrobiology
June 16, 2011: Hadrian's buildings catch the sun -- Nature
June 16, 2011: Scientists prove existence of 'magnetic ropes' that cause solar storms -- Science Daily
June 15, 2011: Drop in sun's activity expected -- Astrobiology
June 15, 2011: Evidence mounts for previously unseen neutrino oscillation -- Physics World
June 14, 2011: New insights on how solar minimums affect Earth -- NASA
June 14, 2011: 'Hidden' galaxies of the universe have lower amounts of heavier elements -- Science Daily
June 13, 2011: Multi-spacecraft observations of an energetic electron event from 0.3 to 1.0 AU -- ACE News
June 10, 2011: STEREO sees complete far side -- NASA
June 10, 2011: Tevatron teams clash over new physics -- Nature
June 10, 2011: The sun unleashed -- APOD
June 9, 2011: A big surprise from the edge of the solar system -- ScienceCast -- Science@NASA
June 9, 2011: Magnetic bubbles at the edge of the solar system -- Astrobiology
June 8, 2011: The sun is having a blast -- Astrobiology
June 7, 2011: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory catches "surfer" waves on the sun -- NASA
June 7, 2011: Could magnets replace aspirin as blood thinners? -- CNET
June 6, 2011: Two ultra-heavy elements added to the periodic table -- Wired
June 6, 2011: Weizmann Institute observatory captures images of a new supernova -- Weizmann Institute of Science
June 5, 2011: CERN experiment traps antimatter atoms for 1000 seconds -- CERN
June 3, 2011: Midnight's solar eclipse -- APOD
June 2, 2011: Pinpointing the nature of filaments in sunspots -- AAAS
June 2, 2011: Solar eclipse pictures -- National Geographic

MAY

May 31, 2011: A rare eclipse of the midnight sun -- Science@NASA
May 28, 2011: Physicists explain the long, useful lifetime of carbon-14 -- Science Daily
May 25, 2011: Rounding the electron -- Nature
May 24, 2011: Universe's not-so-missing mass -- Science Daily
May 16, 2011: Cosmic ray detector blasts off on space shuttle -- Physics World
May 13, 2011: Evidence that cosmic rays seed clouds -- Physics World
May 12, 2011: Cosmic rays mapped across the southern sky -- Physics World
May 10, 2011: Gravity Probe B confirms the existence of gravitomagnetism -- APOD
May 10, 2011: How the Hoyle state made life possible -- Astrobiology
May 10, 2011: The collider that cried 'Higgs' -- Nature
May 6, 2011: Farther along -- APOD
May 6, 2011: WIMP wars -- Scientific American
May 4, 2011: Antiuniverse here we come -- Nature
May 3, 2011: Signs of dark matter from Minnesota mine -- Science News
May 2, 2011: Ion-proton differential streaming in the solar wind -- ACE News
May 2, 2011: Goddard building instrument to study reconnection -- NASA
May 2, 2011: Plasmoids and sheaths mean success or failure for solar eruptions -- Science Daily

APRIL

April 29, 2011: Messages from the edge of the solar system -- Astrobiology
April 28, 2011: Antimatter detector ready for launch -- Nature
April 28, 2011: Magnets used to reduce diagnosis times for infections -- Physics Today
April 27, 2011: "We hope to detect the largest proportion of the matter in space" -- Max Planck Institute
April 27, 2011: The dark side of the universe -- Science News
April 24, 2011: The Cat's Eye nebula from Hubble -- APOD
April 24, 2011: RHIC physicists nab new record for heaviest antimatter -- Brookhaven National Laboratory
April 21, 2011: Electron beams link Enceladus to Saturn -- Astrobiology
April 20, 2011: Five sunspots caused February's solar flare -- Physics Today
April 18, 2011: Slow start to solar cycle -- Astrobiology
April 18, 2011: Short bursts solved? -- HEAPOW
April 14, 2011: Solar activity heats up -- Science@NASA
April 13, 2011: Little Ice Age resulted from more than just solar calm -- AGU
April 12, 2011: Space jets in a bottle -- Science Daily
April 10, 2011: Sunspot loops in ultraviolet -- APOD
April 10, 2011: Will space travel break our hearts? -- Astrobiology
April 8, 2011: Wisconsin aurora -- National Geographic
April 8, 2011: How to turn the vacuum into a superconductor -- New Scientist
April 7, 2011: If plants generate magnetic fields, they're not sayin' -- Eurekalert
April 7, 2011: Tevatron accelerator yields hints of new particle -- BBC
April 6, 2011: Materials science: The pull of stronger magnets -- Nature
April 4, 2011: Looking into the sun's future -- Astrobiology
April 4, 2011: New type of particle accelerator beams its way to a world first -- Science Daily
April 4, 2011: Staring at the sun -- PBS Newshour
April 1, 2011: The strong force -- Astrobiology
April 1, 2011: The amazing disappearing antineutrino -- Nature

MARCH

March 31, 2011: IBEX scientists isolate mysterious 'ribbon' of energy and particles that wraps around heliosphere -- Eurekalert
March 31, 2011: Neutral atoms made to act like electrically charged particles -- Science Daily
March 28, 2011: Time-lapse auroras over Norway -- APOD
March 28, 2011: The fringes of Perseus -- HEAPOW
March 25, 2011: Auroral substorm over Yellowknife -- APOD
March 24, 2011: Earthquake shakes Japanese science -- Astrobiology
March 24, 2011: Exploding stars and stripes -- NASA
March 22, 2011: Goddard annual Sun-Earth Day has a tweeting twist -- NASA
March 22, 2011: Physicists create heaviest form of antimatter ever seen -- New Scientist
March 21, 2011: The importance of being magnetized -- Astrobiology
March 19, 2011: Sun-Earth Day -- NASA
March 17, 2011: A solar prominence eruption from SDO -- APOD
March 17, 2011: LHC could be the first time machine -- Astrobiology
March 16, 2011: Fortuitous timing for NASA's new space weather app -- NASA
March 10, 2011: Voyager rolls to see which way the solar wind is blowing -- Astrobiology
March 10, 2011: Speed demon creates a shock -- NASA
March 9, 2011: Celebrating 400 years of sunspot observations -- NASA
March 7, 2011: Silent superball -- HEAPOW
March 6, 2011: Solving the mystery of the spotless sun -- Astrobiology
March 6, 2011: Adjust your compass now -- Independent
March 5, 2011: Cooling neutron star -- APOD
March 3, 2011: PAMELA uncovers cosmic ray surprise -- Universe Today
March 2, 2011: Researchers crack the mystery of the spotless sun -- NASA

FEBRUARY

February 28, 2011: Beautiful theory collides with smashing particle data -- Nature
February 25, 2011: Radioactivity challenges dark-matter detector -- Nature
February 24, 2011: The Toast Derivation -- Big Blog Theory
February 24, 2011: Solar experts detect waves in giant magnetic holes the size of the UK -- Eurekalert
February 24, 2011: Monster prominence erupts from the sun -- NASA
February 23, 2011: 'Weird science' uncovered inside neutron star -- Eurekalert
February 22, 2011: Star size comparisons -- APOD
February 22, 2011: Launching balloons in Antarctica -- NASA
February 21, 2011: Solar storms could create $2tn 'global Katrina', warns chief scientist -- Guardian
February 18, 2011: Feeling the heat -- Scientific American
February 17, 2011: Catching space weather in the act -- NASA
February 17, 2011: Cassini to sample magnetic environment around Titan -- NASA
February 17, 2011: Musical chairs around the periodic table -- Astrobiology
February 17, 2011: Global solar observatory flares into life -- Nature
February 16, 2011: Herschel measures dark matter for star-forming galaxies -- NASA
February 16, 2011: Sun unleashes huge solar flare towards Earth -- BBC
February 14, 2011: Sail e-way -- Scientific American
February 13, 2011: Ice fishing for cosmic neutrinos -- APOD
February 13, 2011: Measuring the sun's role on climate -- Astrobiology
February 11, 2011: SDO celebrates one year anniversary -- NASA
February 11, 2011: SDO sundog mystery -- NASA
February 7, 2011: Sun 360: STEREO captures views of the entire sun -- APOD
February 6, 2011: First ever STEREO images of the entire sun -- NASA
February 4, 2011: Zeta Oph: Runaway star -- APOD
February 4, 2011: Houdini's skeptical advice: Just because something's unexplained doesn't mean it's supernatural -- Scientific American
February 1, 2011: Cluster encounters a natural particle accelerator -- ESA
February 1, 2011: Watch out for solar sail flares -- Science@NASA

JANUARY

January 31, 2011: Hunt for dark matter closes in at Large Hadron Collider -- Eurekalert
January 31, 2011: Tracking the origins of speedy space particles -- NASA
January 28, 2011: Global eruption rocks the sun -- Science Daily
January 27, 2011: NanoSail-D flies free -- Astrobiology
January 26, 2011: Neutrino detector starts measurement -- Max Planck Institute
January 26, 2011: First large-scale, physics-based space weather model transitions into operation -- NSF
January 24, 2011: Periodic table gets some flex -- Science News
January 21, 2011: Sun provides Earth with less energy than we thought -- Physics World
January 20, 2011: No direct link between black holes and dark matter, scientists find -- Science Daily
January 20, 2011: The Love Car Displacement -- Big Blog Theory
January 19, 2011: Tevatron to shut down in September -- Science News
January 18, 2011: NASA's Fermi catches thunderstorms hurling antimatter into space -- Imagine the Universe!
January 17, 2011: Go jets -- HEAPOW
January 15, 2011: A total eclipse at the end of the world -- APOD
January 15, 2011: IBEX makes first images of magnetotail structures, dynamic interactions occurring in space -- Science Daily
January 14, 2011: NRL scientists develop 3D model of the ionosphere F-region -- NRL
January 14, 2011: Improved measurements of sun to advance understanding of climate change -- AGU
January 14, 2011: Dark-matter galaxy detected: Hidden dwarf lurks nearby? -- National Geographic
January 14, 2011: A twisted way to take pictures -- Science News
January 11, 2011: Holes in the sun's corona -- NASA
January 10, 2011: Spacecraft catches thunderstorms hurling antimatter into space -- AGU
January 10, 2011: A sun halo beyond Stockholm -- APOD
January 10, 2011: New insights into sun's photosphere reported by NJIT researcher at Big Bear -- Eurekalert
January 10, 2011: How do you make lithium melt in the cold -- Eurekalert
January 10, 2011: NASA's Fermi catches thunderstorms hurling antimatter into space -- NASA
January 9, 2011: The Antikythera mechanism -- APOD
January 7, 2011: Sunset, moonset -- APOD
January 6, 2011: Sunrise, moonrise -- APOD
January 6, 2011: Hotspots in fountains on the sun's surface may help explain coronal heating mystery -- NASA
January 6, 2011: New subatomic particle could help explain the mystery of dark matter -- Scientific American
January 5, 2011: Eclipsing the sun -- APOD
January 5, 2011: Images from partial solar eclipse 01.04.11 -- NASA GSFC Flickr
January 5, 2011: 3D magnetic domains imaged for the first time -- Physics World
January 4, 2011: A green flash from the sun -- APOD
January 4, 2011: Smithsonian scientists "fill the gap," view sun's innermost corona -- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
January 4, 2011: Auroral rocket in Norway -- NASA
January 2, 2011: Looking back at an eclipsed Earth -- APOD



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