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TODAY: Astronomy Picture of the
Day (APOD) -- NASA GSFC
May 8, 2012: New insight into atomic nuclei may explain how supernovas formed elements crucial to humankind -- Science Daily
May 6, 2012: Climatic effects of a solar minimum -- Eurekalert
May 3, 2012: Star arsenic, Star selenium -- Astrobiology
May 1, 2012: "Beautiful" new particle found at LHC -- National Geographic
April 28, 2012: Did supernovas boost life on Earth? -- Astrobiology
April 27, 2012: Sunny outlook for space weather forecasters -- Nature
April 26, 2012: ESA contracts Astrium UK to build Solar Orbiter -- ESA
April 26, 2012: Pigeons may 'hear' magnetic fields -- Nature
April 24, 2012: Gamma rays hint at dark matter -- Physics World
April 23, 2012: Evaporating blobs of the Carina nebula -- APOD
April 23, 2012: Origin of cosmic rays a mystery -- Astrobiology
April 23, 2012: Seeing cosmic rays in space -- Astrobiology
April 23, 2012: Cosmic-ray theory gets the cold shoulder -- Physics World
April 21, 2012: New study finds no evidence for dark matter in the Milky Way -- Astrobiology
April 20, 2012: Hinode and SOHO paint an asymmetrical picture of the sun -- Eurekalert
April 20, 2012: Year Two: SDO highlights on its anniversary -- NASA
April 19, 2012: Rubber chicken flies into solar radiation storm -- Science@NASA
April 19, 2012: Here comes solar maximum -- NASA ScienceCasts
April 18, 2012: Not-quite-so elementary, my dear electron -- Nature
April 16, 2012: Giant prominence erupts -- NASA
April 15, 2012: Uranus aurora glimpsed from Earth -- Astrobiology
April 13, 2012: On the border between matter and anti-matter -- Science Daily
April 12, 2012: Yuri's planet -- APOD
April 12, 2012: Teamwork: IBEX and TWINS observe a solar storm -- NASA
April 11, 2012: Interplanetary turbulence during the recent protracted solar minimum -- ACE News
April 9, 2012: SDO and STEREO spot something new on the sun -- NASA
April 6, 2012: Mysteries of the sun...explained in video -- NASA
April 5, 2012: SDO goes for a spin -- NASA
April 5, 2012: Magnetic storms spotted on Venus -- Nature
April 4, 2012: Handheld plasma flashlight rids skin of notorious pathogens -- Science Daily
March 29, 2012: Cassiopeia A: A star explodes and turns inside out -- Chandra X-ray Observatory
March 29, 2012: Giant solar tornado caught in NASA video -- National Geographic
March 29, 2012: Synopsis: Still no signs of antihelium in cosmic rays -- APS Physics
March 28, 2012: Solar eclipses can (slightly) change weather on Earth -- National Geographic
March 28, 2012: Met office to provide space weather warnings for Planet Earth and forecasts for exoplanets -- Science Daily
March 27, 2012: Mercury helps scientists measure the size of the sun -- Astrobiology
March 27, 2012: NASA's TWINS and IBEX spacecraft observe impact of powerful solar storm from inside and outside Earth's magnetosphere -- Soutwest Research Institute
March 27, 2012: Lightning strikes produce free neutrons, and we're not sure how -- Ars Technica
March 27, 2012: Watching space weather through the MAGIC of CubeSat CINEMA -- Science Daily
March 26, 2012: Solar storm dumps gigawatts into Earth's upper atmosphere -- Astrobiology
March 24, 2012: Laser hints at how universe got its magnetism -- Science Daily
March 23, 2012: NASA measures impact of huge solar flare on Earth's atmosphere -- NASA
March 22, 2012: Modeling extreme space weather -- NASA
March 22, 2012: 'Antimagnet' renders magnets invisible -- Nature
March 22, 2012: ScienceCasts: The surprising power of a solar storm -- Science@NASA
March 22, 2012: Northern lights: First-ever measurement of auroral turbulence using a nanosatellite radar receiver -- Science Daily
March 21, 2012: Aurora over Iceland -- APOD
March 21, 2012: How big is the sun, really? -- Sky & Telescope
March 19, 2012: Solar cycle abundance variations in corotating interaction regions -- ACE News
March 19, 2012: Sunspot Group 1429 and the distant sun -- APOD
March 19, 2012: Neutrinos not faster than light -- Nature
March 19, 2012: Cosmic rays alter chemistry of lunar ice, may create building blocks of life -- Science Daily
March 16, 2012: Bright planets at McMath-Pierce solar telescope -- APOD
March 15, 2012: Solar flare in the gamma-ray sky -- APOD
March 14, 2012: Angry sun erupting -- APOD
March 14, 2012: Magnetic moon caused by asteroid impact? -- Astrobiology
March 13, 2012: Big sunspot remains active -- NASA
March 13, 2012: Flying through a geomagnetic storm -- Science Daily
March 12, 2012: The scale of the universe -- interactive -- APOD
March 12, 2012: Moderate geomagnetic storm at Earth -- NASA
March 9, 2012: Solar wind explodes on Venus -- Astrobiology
March 9, 2012: New study proves the magnetosphere protects Earth -- Astrobiology
March 9, 2012: Geomagnetic storm strength increases -- NASA
March 8, 2012: Ancient impact may explain the moon's magnetic quirks -- AAAS
March 8, 2012: Experiment observes elusive neutrino transformations -- Caltech
March 8, 2012: Storms from the sun -- NASA
March 8, 2012: NASA invites students to study the sun during Solar Week - March 19-23, 2012 -- NASA
March 8, 2012: Earth's magnetic field provides vital protection -- ESA
March 8, 2012: Solar storm goes easy on Earth -- but more are sure to come, NASA says -- NPR
March 7, 2012: Internal structure of antihydrogen probed for the first time -- Physics World
March 5, 2012: Flying over the Earth at night -- APOD
March 5, 2012: Active region on the sun spits out three flares -- NASA
March 5, 2012: Space weather: Explosions on Venus -- Science Daily
March 3, 2012: Another tail for Comet Garradd -- APOD
March 2, 2012: Flying through a geomagnetic storm -- Science@NASA
March 1, 2012: ScienceCasts: Auroras underfoot -- Science@NASA
February 28, 2012: The opposing tails of Comet Garradd -- APOD
February 28, 2012: Longitudinal dependence of peak intensities in solar energetic particle events -- ACE News
February 28, 2012: NASA develops space weather app for Android smarphones and tablet users -- NASA
February 27, 2012: Mysterious electron acceleration explained -- MIT
February 26, 2012: The mysterious rings of Supernova 1987A -- APOD
February 25, 2012: Tellurium in ancient stars -- Astrobiology
February 25, 2012: Plasmas torn apart -- Caltech
February 22, 2012: Partial solar eclipse from space -- NASA
February 21, 2012: UNH scientists launch NASA rocket into aurora -- University of New Hampshire
February 17, 2012: Video: A tornado on the sun -- NPR
February 13, 2012: Sunspots' secrets unraveling -- Sky & Telescope
February 11, 2012: Computer simulations of Earth's turbulent magnetosphere -- Astrobiology
February 10, 2012: Alien matter in the solar system: A galactic mismatch -- Science@NASA
February 9, 2012: Trees, stars, aurora! -- APOD
February 9, 2012: Neutrinos point to rare stellar fusion -- Physics World
February 8, 2012: NASA small explorer mission celebrates ten years and forty thousand x-ray flares -- NASA
February 7, 2012: The belt of Venus over Mercedes, Argentina -- APOD
February 6, 2012: The sun as art -- NASA
February 6, 2012: First panoramic view of the sun beamed down by NASA spacecraft -- The Guardian
February 5, 2012: Gamma-ray observations confirm ACE conclusions that cosmic rays are accelerated in OB associations and their superbubbles -- ACE News
February 4, 2012: Comet Garradd and M92 -- APOD
February 4, 2012: IBEX glimpses alien interstellar material -- Astrobiology
February 2, 2012: Magnetic fields put the brakes on millisecond pulsars -- Physics World
February 1, 2012: Red aurora over Australia -- APOD
February 1, 2012: A century of cosmic rays -- Physics Today
January 31, 2012: Radiation en route to Mars -- Astrobiology
January 31, 2012: IBEX: Glimpses of the interstellar material beyond our solar system -- NASA
January 30, 2012: NASA's THEMIS satellite sees a great electron escape -- NASA
January 28, 2012: Planet Aurora borealis -- APOD
January 27, 2012: Space Weather Center to add world's first 'ensemble' forecasting capability -- NASA
January 27, 2012: X1.8 solar flare and CME - 01.27.12 -- NASA
January 27, 2012: Solar eclipse over the USA -- Science@NASA
January 25, 2012: Cold plasma above Earth -- Astrobiology
January 25, 2012: M8.7 solar flare and Earth directed CME -- NASA
January 24, 2012: Elusive matter found to be abundant far above Earth -- AGU
January 24, 2012: January aurora over Norway -- APOD
January 24, 2012: Classifying solar eruptions -- NASA
January 23, 2012: Magnetic soap could help in oil spill clean-ups -- BBC
January 23, 2012: Biggest solar storm since 2005 underway, will peak Tuesday -- Washington Post
January 21, 2012: Days in the sun -- APOD
January 20, 2012: Comet corpses in the solar wind -- Science@NASA
January 19, 2012: Long duration M3.2 class solar flare and CME -- NASA
January 18, 2012: SDO helps measure magnetic fields on the sun's surface -- NASA
January 14, 2012: NGC 6369: The Little Ghost Nebula -- APOD
January 9, 2012: Using magnets to study effects of weightlessness -- Astrobiology
January 9, 2012: A guide to the dark side -- Science
January 3, 2012: A full sky aurora over Norway -- APOD
January 3, 2012: Magnetic microbes in Death Valley -- Astrobiology
January 2, 2012: How cosmic rays can image the throat of an active volcano -- Scientific American
MAY
May 8, 2012: Building nanomagnets atom by atom -- Physics WorldMay 8, 2012: New insight into atomic nuclei may explain how supernovas formed elements crucial to humankind -- Science Daily
May 6, 2012: Climatic effects of a solar minimum -- Eurekalert
May 3, 2012: Star arsenic, Star selenium -- Astrobiology
May 1, 2012: "Beautiful" new particle found at LHC -- National Geographic
APRIL
April 30, 2012: Aurora over Raufarhofn -- APODApril 28, 2012: Did supernovas boost life on Earth? -- Astrobiology
April 27, 2012: Sunny outlook for space weather forecasters -- Nature
April 26, 2012: ESA contracts Astrium UK to build Solar Orbiter -- ESA
April 26, 2012: Pigeons may 'hear' magnetic fields -- Nature
April 24, 2012: Gamma rays hint at dark matter -- Physics World
April 23, 2012: Evaporating blobs of the Carina nebula -- APOD
April 23, 2012: Origin of cosmic rays a mystery -- Astrobiology
April 23, 2012: Seeing cosmic rays in space -- Astrobiology
April 23, 2012: Cosmic-ray theory gets the cold shoulder -- Physics World
April 21, 2012: New study finds no evidence for dark matter in the Milky Way -- Astrobiology
April 20, 2012: Hinode and SOHO paint an asymmetrical picture of the sun -- Eurekalert
April 20, 2012: Year Two: SDO highlights on its anniversary -- NASA
April 19, 2012: Rubber chicken flies into solar radiation storm -- Science@NASA
April 19, 2012: Here comes solar maximum -- NASA ScienceCasts
April 18, 2012: Not-quite-so elementary, my dear electron -- Nature
April 16, 2012: Giant prominence erupts -- NASA
April 15, 2012: Uranus aurora glimpsed from Earth -- Astrobiology
April 13, 2012: On the border between matter and anti-matter -- Science Daily
April 12, 2012: Yuri's planet -- APOD
April 12, 2012: Teamwork: IBEX and TWINS observe a solar storm -- NASA
April 11, 2012: Interplanetary turbulence during the recent protracted solar minimum -- ACE News
April 9, 2012: SDO and STEREO spot something new on the sun -- NASA
April 6, 2012: Mysteries of the sun...explained in video -- NASA
April 5, 2012: SDO goes for a spin -- NASA
April 5, 2012: Magnetic storms spotted on Venus -- Nature
April 4, 2012: Handheld plasma flashlight rids skin of notorious pathogens -- Science Daily
MARCH
March 31, 2012: Comet shows evidence of space weathering -- AstrobiologyMarch 29, 2012: Cassiopeia A: A star explodes and turns inside out -- Chandra X-ray Observatory
March 29, 2012: Giant solar tornado caught in NASA video -- National Geographic
March 29, 2012: Synopsis: Still no signs of antihelium in cosmic rays -- APS Physics
March 28, 2012: Solar eclipses can (slightly) change weather on Earth -- National Geographic
March 28, 2012: Met office to provide space weather warnings for Planet Earth and forecasts for exoplanets -- Science Daily
March 27, 2012: Mercury helps scientists measure the size of the sun -- Astrobiology
March 27, 2012: NASA's TWINS and IBEX spacecraft observe impact of powerful solar storm from inside and outside Earth's magnetosphere -- Soutwest Research Institute
March 27, 2012: Lightning strikes produce free neutrons, and we're not sure how -- Ars Technica
March 27, 2012: Watching space weather through the MAGIC of CubeSat CINEMA -- Science Daily
March 26, 2012: Solar storm dumps gigawatts into Earth's upper atmosphere -- Astrobiology
March 24, 2012: Laser hints at how universe got its magnetism -- Science Daily
March 23, 2012: NASA measures impact of huge solar flare on Earth's atmosphere -- NASA
March 22, 2012: Modeling extreme space weather -- NASA
March 22, 2012: 'Antimagnet' renders magnets invisible -- Nature
March 22, 2012: ScienceCasts: The surprising power of a solar storm -- Science@NASA
March 22, 2012: Northern lights: First-ever measurement of auroral turbulence using a nanosatellite radar receiver -- Science Daily
March 21, 2012: Aurora over Iceland -- APOD
March 21, 2012: How big is the sun, really? -- Sky & Telescope
March 19, 2012: Solar cycle abundance variations in corotating interaction regions -- ACE News
March 19, 2012: Sunspot Group 1429 and the distant sun -- APOD
March 19, 2012: Neutrinos not faster than light -- Nature
March 19, 2012: Cosmic rays alter chemistry of lunar ice, may create building blocks of life -- Science Daily
March 16, 2012: Bright planets at McMath-Pierce solar telescope -- APOD
March 15, 2012: Solar flare in the gamma-ray sky -- APOD
March 14, 2012: Angry sun erupting -- APOD
March 14, 2012: Magnetic moon caused by asteroid impact? -- Astrobiology
March 13, 2012: Big sunspot remains active -- NASA
March 13, 2012: Flying through a geomagnetic storm -- Science Daily
March 12, 2012: The scale of the universe -- interactive -- APOD
March 12, 2012: Moderate geomagnetic storm at Earth -- NASA
March 9, 2012: Solar wind explodes on Venus -- Astrobiology
March 9, 2012: New study proves the magnetosphere protects Earth -- Astrobiology
March 9, 2012: Geomagnetic storm strength increases -- NASA
March 8, 2012: Ancient impact may explain the moon's magnetic quirks -- AAAS
March 8, 2012: Experiment observes elusive neutrino transformations -- Caltech
March 8, 2012: Storms from the sun -- NASA
March 8, 2012: NASA invites students to study the sun during Solar Week - March 19-23, 2012 -- NASA
March 8, 2012: Earth's magnetic field provides vital protection -- ESA
March 8, 2012: Solar storm goes easy on Earth -- but more are sure to come, NASA says -- NPR
March 7, 2012: Internal structure of antihydrogen probed for the first time -- Physics World
March 5, 2012: Flying over the Earth at night -- APOD
March 5, 2012: Active region on the sun spits out three flares -- NASA
March 5, 2012: Space weather: Explosions on Venus -- Science Daily
March 3, 2012: Another tail for Comet Garradd -- APOD
March 2, 2012: Flying through a geomagnetic storm -- Science@NASA
March 1, 2012: ScienceCasts: Auroras underfoot -- Science@NASA
FEBRUARY
February 28, 2012: Mysterious electron acceleration explained -- Science DailyFebruary 28, 2012: The opposing tails of Comet Garradd -- APOD
February 28, 2012: Longitudinal dependence of peak intensities in solar energetic particle events -- ACE News
February 28, 2012: NASA develops space weather app for Android smarphones and tablet users -- NASA
February 27, 2012: Mysterious electron acceleration explained -- MIT
February 26, 2012: The mysterious rings of Supernova 1987A -- APOD
February 25, 2012: Tellurium in ancient stars -- Astrobiology
February 25, 2012: Plasmas torn apart -- Caltech
February 22, 2012: Partial solar eclipse from space -- NASA
February 21, 2012: UNH scientists launch NASA rocket into aurora -- University of New Hampshire
February 17, 2012: Video: A tornado on the sun -- NPR
February 13, 2012: Sunspots' secrets unraveling -- Sky & Telescope
February 11, 2012: Computer simulations of Earth's turbulent magnetosphere -- Astrobiology
February 10, 2012: Alien matter in the solar system: A galactic mismatch -- Science@NASA
February 9, 2012: Trees, stars, aurora! -- APOD
February 9, 2012: Neutrinos point to rare stellar fusion -- Physics World
February 8, 2012: NASA small explorer mission celebrates ten years and forty thousand x-ray flares -- NASA
February 7, 2012: The belt of Venus over Mercedes, Argentina -- APOD
February 6, 2012: The sun as art -- NASA
February 6, 2012: First panoramic view of the sun beamed down by NASA spacecraft -- The Guardian
February 5, 2012: Gamma-ray observations confirm ACE conclusions that cosmic rays are accelerated in OB associations and their superbubbles -- ACE News
February 4, 2012: Comet Garradd and M92 -- APOD
February 4, 2012: IBEX glimpses alien interstellar material -- Astrobiology
February 2, 2012: Magnetic fields put the brakes on millisecond pulsars -- Physics World
February 1, 2012: Red aurora over Australia -- APOD
February 1, 2012: A century of cosmic rays -- Physics Today
JANUARY
January 31, 2012: The Helix Nebula from the VISTA telescope -- APODJanuary 31, 2012: Radiation en route to Mars -- Astrobiology
January 31, 2012: IBEX: Glimpses of the interstellar material beyond our solar system -- NASA
January 30, 2012: NASA's THEMIS satellite sees a great electron escape -- NASA
January 28, 2012: Planet Aurora borealis -- APOD
January 27, 2012: Space Weather Center to add world's first 'ensemble' forecasting capability -- NASA
January 27, 2012: X1.8 solar flare and CME - 01.27.12 -- NASA
January 27, 2012: Solar eclipse over the USA -- Science@NASA
January 25, 2012: Cold plasma above Earth -- Astrobiology
January 25, 2012: M8.7 solar flare and Earth directed CME -- NASA
January 24, 2012: Elusive matter found to be abundant far above Earth -- AGU
January 24, 2012: January aurora over Norway -- APOD
January 24, 2012: Classifying solar eruptions -- NASA
January 23, 2012: Magnetic soap could help in oil spill clean-ups -- BBC
January 23, 2012: Biggest solar storm since 2005 underway, will peak Tuesday -- Washington Post
January 21, 2012: Days in the sun -- APOD
January 20, 2012: Comet corpses in the solar wind -- Science@NASA
January 19, 2012: Long duration M3.2 class solar flare and CME -- NASA
January 18, 2012: SDO helps measure magnetic fields on the sun's surface -- NASA
January 14, 2012: NGC 6369: The Little Ghost Nebula -- APOD
January 9, 2012: Using magnets to study effects of weightlessness -- Astrobiology
January 9, 2012: A guide to the dark side -- Science
January 3, 2012: A full sky aurora over Norway -- APOD
January 3, 2012: Magnetic microbes in Death Valley -- Astrobiology
January 2, 2012: How cosmic rays can image the throat of an active volcano -- Scientific American
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