News from 2002

DECEMBER

December 30, 2002: A Sun pillar -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 30, 2002: More to physics than meets the eye -- CERN Courier
December 21, 2002: Solstice celebration -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 13, 2002: The crown of the Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 13, 2002: What carries more kinetic energy than a Randy Johnson fastball, yet is only the size of an atom? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
December 6, 2002: Zimbabwe solar eclipse -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 6, 2002: Sun is ok, says latest neutrino experiment -- Eurekalert
December 6, 2002: It's "TIMED" to say Happy Birthday -- NASA GSFC Goddard News
December 4, 2002: Researchers make first images of Earth's plasma sheet, discover possible breakthrough for monitoring and predicting space weather -- NASA GSFC
December 3, 2002: Eclipse over Acacia -- NASA GSFC APOD

NOVEMBER

November 29, 2002: The world according to Odenwald: Goddard's natural philosopher -- NASA GSFC Goddard News
November 27, 2002: A double flux-rope magnetic cloud -- ACE News
November 26, 2002: Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) satellite -- NASA GSFC
November 25, 2002: The Earth's magnetic field -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 18, 2002: First 3-D magnetic reconnection measurements -- SpaceDaily
November 18, 2002: Best Sun pictures ever show new solar features -- CNN
November 15, 2002: Sunspots come into focus -- PhysicsWeb
November 15, 2002: Can the moon be brighter than the Sun? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
November 15, 2002: Sunspot structure seen for the first time -- Space News
November 14, 2002: The sharpest view of the Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 14, 2002: NASA's satellite flies high to monitor Sun's influence on ozone -- NASA GSFC
November 13, 2002: New photos of Sun are most detailed ever -- SPACE.com
November 13, 2002: Close up on sunspots -- BBC News
November 12, 2002: Satellite finds electrons brought to near-light speed -- Spaceflight Now
November 10, 2002: A green flash from the Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 8, 2002: How often does a storm happen on the Sun? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
November 7, 2002: UC Berkeley analysis of satellite data turns up first direct evidence that magnetic processes in space can accelerate electrons to near light speed -- UC Berkeley
November 4, 2002: Scientists measure the most powerful magnet known -- NASA GSFC
November 3, 2002: A spectacular solar show -- Spaceflight Now
November 2, 2002: Magnetism shapes beauty in the heavens -- Spaceflight Now
November 1, 2002: Cosmic rays from the Kuiper Belt -- Sky & Telescope
November 1, 2002: Detecting dark dimensions -- Physical Review Focus

OCTOBER

October 31, 2002: Aurora in the night -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 31, 2002: Spooky auroras light up autumn nights -- CNN.com
October 31, 2002: Old star sheds light on creation of elements -- PhysicsWeb
October 31, 2002: Struck by low-metal star finding -- Space News
October 30, 2002: SwRI-led team solves mystery surrounding anomalous cosmic rays -- SwRI
October 30, 2002: Some cosmic rays originate within solar system, researchers find -- AGU
October 30, 2002: Sun puts on a show for fall -- NASA GSFC
October 29, 2002: Researchers get first look into antimatter atoms -- NSF
October 29, 2002: Researchers get first look into antimatter atoms -- SpaceRef.com
October 24, 2002: Rings around the Sun -- Science@NASA
October 23, 2002: NSF establishes five new centers to develop teaching leadership in science and mathematics -- NSF
October 23, 2002: Gamma-ray telescope to sleuth for origin of elements -- NASA GSFC
October 19, 2002: Cosmic rays 'linked to clouds' -- BBC
October 15, 2002: Direct evidence for variation in the energy loss of galactic cosmic rays due to changing levels of solar modulation -- ACE News
October 15, 2002: Aurora's ring -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 7, 2002: Physics manuscripts fetch top dollar on auction block -- Scientific American
October 1, 2002: PAMELA set to take particle physics into orbit -- CERN Courier

SEPTEMBER

September 30, 2002: Space artists honored -- Sky & Telescope
September 27, 2002: 'The Sun as Art' brings new light to SOHO images -- NASA GSFC
September 23, 2002: Aurora season begins -- Science@NASA
September 20, 2002: Antimatter Breakthrough: Big Batch Created in Lab -- National Geographic
September 19, 2002: Space movie reveals shocking secrets of the Crab pulsar -- Chandra
September 17, 2002: Northern lights continue to impress lucky viewers -- SPACE.com
September 16, 2002: Space weather forecasting shifts into high gear -- UCAR
September 16, 2002: Nuclei reveal novel decay -- PhysicsWeb
September 11, 2002: Rare class of exotic stars revealed as super-magnets -- NASA GSFC
September 9, 2002: Auroral delights -- Sky & Telescope
September 3, 2002: A twist on the Sun's emissions -- Space News
September 1, 2002: Particle physics: a world without borders -- CERN Courier

AUGUST

August 26, 2002: NASA selects Stanford team to design and direct major solar experiment for 2007 launch -- ScienceDaily
August 23, 2002: Amazing magnetic fluids -- Science@NASA
August 23, 2002: ESA studies the Sun-Earth climate link -- ESA
August 21, 2002: NASA selects investigations for solar dynamics observatory -- ScienceDaily
August 16, 2002: 25 years later, Voyager mission keeps pushing the space envelope -- NASA JPL
August 14, 2002: Starquakes reveal stellar secrets -- ESA
August 9, 2002: Balloon above Canada searches for antimatter and other cosmic particles -- NASA GSFC
August 1, 2002: Sunspots and solar active regions -- NASA GSFC APOD

JULY

July 30, 2002: Cosmic rays linked to global warming -- AGU
July 29, 2002: Dwarf's gift -- HEASARC Picture of the Week
July 26, 2002: Stock market swings help researchers understand extreme events in solar wind -- ScienceDaily
July 26, 2002: Violent days on the Sun -- ESA
July 25, 2002: Space weather experts meet in Adelaide -- Space News
July 25, 2002: Solar grand slam -- NASA GSFC
July 24, 2002: Our stormy Sun -- Sky & Telescope
July 22, 2002: The little spacecraft that could...and did -- Scientific American
July 19, 2002: A solar source for diamond dust? -- Sky & Telescope
July 18, 2002: Sunspot region 30 -- NASA GSFC APOD
July 17, 2002: Element 118 dropped from periodic table -- Scientific American
July 17, 2002: The Sun: A great ball of iron? -- ScienceDaily
July 16, 2002: Mysteries of the Sun -- SPACE.com
July 15, 2002: Naked-eye sunspot -- Sky & Telescope
July 11, 2002: Nanosensors for astronauts -- ScienceDaily
July 10, 2002: Near-relativistic electron events accelerated by CMEs -- ACE News
July 8, 2002: Auroras underfoot -- Science@NASA
July 2, 2002: Molten curl -- NASA GSFC
July 1, 2002: Cosmic-ray observations need accelerator data -- CERN Courier
July 1, 2002: Sun shows temper even in mild times -- Space.com

JUNE

June 24, 2002: The Sun's heliosphere & heliopause -- NASA GSFC APOD
June 13, 2002: Stormy solar weather plays the Sun like a guitar -- NASA GSFC
June 10, 2002: Composition and charge state structure of magnetic clouds -- ACE News
June 7, 2002: Surprises from solar X-rays -- Sky & Telescope
June 7, 2002: 100,000-year climate pattern linked to Sun's magnetic cycles -- ScienceDaily
June 6, 2002: Giant loops in the solar atmosphere may trigger Sun's magnetic poles reversals -- ScienceDaily
June 6, 2002: Flipping over the Sun -- Space News
June 6, 2002: Do hammerheads follow magnetic highways in migration? -- National Geographic
June 5, 2002: RHESSI captures new light from Sun, reveals surprises in solar flares -- NASA GSFC
June 5, 2002: Solar eruptions that miss can still hit -- NASA GSFC
June 4, 2002: Solar weather probed in depth -- Sky & Telescope
June 3, 2002: Observing atmosphere's response to solar storms -- Spaceflight Now

MAY

May 30, 2002: Aurora's polar light show -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
May 29, 2002: Monster Wimpzilla attack -- Eurekalert
May 29, 2002: Cosmic-ray particles could give information about neutrino mass -- CERN Courier
May 29, 2002: Remnants reveal origins of cosmic rays -- CERN Courier
May 28, 2002: Fleet of NASA spacecraft observe atmosphere's response to recent solar storms -- NASA GSFC
May 24, 2002: Sun-catcher probe completes its first loop around L1 point -- Spaceflight Now
May 23, 2002: Supernova poised to go off near Earth -- New Scientist
May 23, 2002: A new heavy ion abundance enrichment pattern in ³He-rich solar particle events -- ACE News
May 21, 2002: Unusual views of the Sun -- ESA
May 20, 2002: Solar eclipse June 10 over North America -- Space.com
May 19, 2002: Scientists see prediction of solar storms in future -- Spaceflight Now
May 16, 2002: Double trouble solar bubbles -- NASA GSFC APOD
May 15, 2002: Tail wags of Comet Ikeya-Zhang -- NASA GSFC APOD
May 15, 2002: Hypervelocity winds rage in the Sun's atmosphere -- NASA GSFC
May 10, 2002: Neutrino pioneer wins 2001 National Medal of Science -- Physics Web
May 10, 2002: Earth an "active participant" in space weather -- New Scientist
May 9, 2002: Earth's space storm shield offers protection at a price -- NASA GSFC
May 9, 2002: Earth-based tools used to image weather in space -- Spaceflight Now
May 8, 2002: Sunspot loops in ultraviolet -- NASA GSFC APOD
May 8, 2002: Guinness names aerogel world's lightest solid -- Spaceflight Now
May 6, 2002: Lawyer claims to "own" the Sun -- SpaceDaily

APRIL

April 30, 2002: Point source for extreme cosmic rays? -- Physics News Update
April 25, 2002: Research points to supernova origin for cosmic-ray protons -- Scientific American
April 25, 2002: Cosmic rays reveal their roots -- Physics Web
April 24, 2002: The solar neutrino problem has been closed -- Physics News Update
April 23, 2002: Energy disappears high in atmosphere, scientists say -- NASA GSFC
April 23, 2002: Cosmic ray mystery 'solved' -- BBC
April 23, 2002: Retired quasars generate most energetic cosmic rays -- Spaceflight Now
April 23, 2002: When neutrinos change type, some must have mass -- UniSci
April 22, 2002: Retired quasars live on to generate the fastest, most energetic cosmic rays -- Imagine the Universe!
April 22, 2002: Experiment confirms Sun theories -- BBC
April 22, 2002: Solar neutrinos really do change -- Berkeley Lab
April 22, 2002: Solar blast could spark nighttime fireworks -- CNN.com
April 21, 2002: Retired quasars live on to generate the fastest, most energetic cosmic rays -- NASA GSFC
April 18, 2002: How ultra high-energy neutrinos might be made, seen -- UniSci
April 18, 2002: Beyond Pluto, NASA craft keeps on trekking -- CNN.com
April 16, 2002: Ultrahigh-energy neutrinos -- Physics News Update
April 16, 2002: Spectral variability in large solar energetic particle events -- ACE News
April 11, 2002: Neutrinos from the Sun and from a factory described -- UniSci
April 10, 2002: Cosmic X-rays reveal evidence for new form of matter -- NASA HQ
April 9, 2002: Record set for most-distant spacecraft maintenance -- NASA JPL
April 4, 2002: Scientists listen in on the Sun to reveal new insights into its fiery dynamo -- Eurekalert
April 2, 2002: Charge states of energetic particles in corotating interaction regions -- ACE News

MARCH

March 26, 2002: Helping the AMS experiment to detect antiparticles in space -- CERN Courier
March 26, 2002: Record-breaking magnet has five-tesla field -- CERN Courier
March 25, 2002: Footprints of fire: Dancing in the circle of light -- NASA GSFC HEAPOW
March 22, 2002: Ordinary physics can't be used to study cosmic rays -- UniSci
March 21, 2002: S is for Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 20, 2002: Aurora over Antarctica -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 20, 2002: Sun-Earth Day -- NASA GSFC
March 20, 2002: NASA celebrates Sun-Earth Day with fireworks -- NASA GSFC
March 20, 2002: Scientists predict calmer space weather ahead -- Spaceflight Now
March 20, 2002: North magnetic pole could be leaving Canada -- CNN
March 20, 2002: A new form of matter -- Science@NASA
March 16, 2002: Solar wind power to point and stabilize space telescope -- Newswise
March 15, 2002: Neutron Mars -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 15, 2002: Measuring Martian radiation: Good and bad news -- Sky & Telescope
March 13, 2002: LL Orionis: When cosmic winds collide -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 13, 2002: The largest thing in the solar system -- Physics News Update
March 11, 2002: UK scientists show that hydrogen transmits magnetism -- UniSci
March 7, 2002: Puzzling X-rays from Jupiter -- Science@NASA
March 6, 2002: Hubble eyes bow shock near a young star -- NASA JPL
March 6, 2002: NASA's FUSE satellite lit again -- NASA GSFC
March 4, 2002: Jupiter then and now -- NASA GSFC HEAPOW
March 1, 2002: Jupiter's great X-ray spot -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 1, 2002: Pierre Auger Observatory in action -- CERN Courier
March 1, 2002: ESA mission will study ultimate energies -- CERN Courier
March 1, 2002: NASA to attempt contact with Pioneer 10 spacecraft -- Spaceflight Now

FEBRUARY

February 28, 2002: Unique spacecraft group probes Jupiter magnetosphere -- UniSci
February 28, 2002: Solar wind buffets vast Jupiter region -- Spaceflight Now
February 27, 2002: Solar wind buffets vast Jupiter region, team approach reveals -- NASA JPL
February 27, 2002: NASA to try to contact Pioneer 10 spacecraft once again -- NASA ARC
February 25, 2002: Cold antihydrogen atoms may have been made at CERN -- UniSci
February 21, 2002: Antimatter atoms captured for the first time -- New Scientist
February 18, 2002: Candid snaps of a star's outburst -- NASA GSFC HEAPOW
February 15, 2002: Composition variations at low energies during large SEP events -- ACE News
February 13, 2002: Hint of WIMPS in the Sun -- New Scientist
February 12, 2002: Coming to a theater near you -- The stormy Sun -- NASA GSFC Imagine the Universe!
February 11, 2002: Everything is right on 'TIMED' with new solar science satellite -- NASA GSFC
February 7, 2002: Coronal hole -- NASA GSFC APOD
February 6, 2002: Resurgent Sun peaks for second time -- CNN
February 6, 2002: The biggest explosions in the Solar System -- Science@NASA
February 5, 2002: Solar explorer successfully launched by Pegasus rocket -- Spaceflight Now
February 5, 2002: Sun cranks out rare cookie cutter flares -- NASA GSFC
February 5, 2002: New orbiter to make X-ray flicks of Sun -- CNN
February 4, 2002: Researchers develop world's first light-tunable "plastic" magnet -- Ohio State University
February 1, 2002: HESSI Set for February 5 Launch -- NASA Goddard News
February 1, 2002: Balloon TIGER -- NASA GSFC APOD
February 1, 2002: The Standard Model in trouble? -- Jupiter Scientific

JANUARY

January 29, 2002: Finding how many energetic neutrinos produced by Sun -- UniSci
January 28, 2002: "Local" gamma-ray bursts are newest pieces of puzzle -- Imagine the Universe!
January 28, 2002: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory - Canada's eye on the universe -- Cern Courier
January 28, 2002: Snow TIGER trap -- NASA GSFC HEAPOW
January 28, 2002: More precise solar neutrino production figure determined by UW scientists -- University of Washington
January 28, 2002: Yohkoh Sun-watching craft remains out of commission -- Spaceflight Now
January 24, 2002: NASA probes Earth/Sun relationship -- Space.com
January 24, 2002: NASA balloon makes record-breaking flight -- Science Daily
January 23, 2002: The 'high' points of India's astronomy -- Space.com
January 23, 2002: Giant balloon breaks endurance record -- New Scientist
January 23, 2002: Balloon lands after record flight -- CNEWS
January 23, 2002: Here comes the Sun...again -- BBC News
January 23, 2002: Sun's fury returns, marking double peak in cycle -- Space.com
January 23, 2002: NASA balloon makes record-breaking flight -- Spaceflight Now
January 23, 2002: Antarctic science balloon smashes flight mark -- CNN
January 22, 2002: NASA balloon makes record-breaking flight -- Space.com
January 22, 2002: NASA balloon makes record-breaking flight -- NASA GSFC
January 22, 2002: 'Local' gamma ray bursts may solve a mystery or two -- Spaceflight Now
January 22, 2002: Neutron bounce quantized in Earth gravity -- NASA GSFC APOD
January 18, 2002: New HESSI spacecraft to steal secrets of solar flares -- NASA GSFC
January 18, 2002: The resurgent Sun -- Science@NASA
January 18, 2002: Galileo falls asleep during final mission -- New Scientist
January 15, 2002: Red auroral corona -- NASA GSFC APOD
January 13, 2002: Radioactive decay of elements gives age of stars -- Spaceflight Now
January 11, 2002: Black holes from heaven -- APS
January 10, 2002: Heavy feet caused Super-K calamity -- New Scientist
January 9, 2002: Possible origin of magnetic fields in space uncovered -- UniSci
January 8, 2002: Newly discovered subclass of "local" gamma ray bursts may solve a mystery or two -- NASA GSFC
January 8, 2002: Sun is mostly iron, not hydrogen -- University of Missouri-Rolla
January 8, 2002: Magnetic 'bubbles' may be key force in galaxy clusters -- Eurekalert
January 8, 2002: Magnetic 'bubbles' may be key force in galaxy clusters -- Ohio University
January 8, 2002: Ancient supernova may have triggered eco-catastrophe -- Eurekalert
January 8, 2002: Star Wars: What happens when stellar winds collide -- Space.com
January 7, 2002: Yohkoh spacecraft in safe mode -- spacetoday.net
January 7, 2002: Newly discovered subclass of "local" gamma ray bursts may solve a mystery or two -- NASA GSFC
January 5, 2002: Sun erupts with an extraordinary mass ejection -- Spaceflight Now
January 4, 2002: AGU endorses science education standards -- AGU
January 4, 2002: New picture: Solar eruption among most complex ever recorded -- Space.com
January 4, 2002: Sun unleashes monster eruption -- CNN
January 3, 2002: An improved model of the galactic cosmic ray radiation environment -- ACE News
January 3, 2002: 'TIGER' scientists stalk elusive origin of cosmic rays -- Eurekalert
January 3, 2002: TIGER loose in Antarctica, searching for cosmic ray origin -- NASA GSFC
January 3, 2002: TIGER scientists stalk elusive origin of cosmic rays -- SpaceRef.com
January 1, 2002: The secret of the black aurora -- NASA GSFC APOD

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