News from 2003

DECEMBER

December 31, 2003: Bill Nye's 'cool' interplanetary sundial heads for Mars -- ScienceDaily
December 31, 2003: University scientists catching cosmic rays in Antarctica summer -- Portsmouth Herald
December 29, 2003: Earth's inconstant magnetic field -- Science@NASA
December 17, 2003: A proton aurora -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 16, 2003: Aria-9 poised for liftoff -- Washington University in St. Louis
December 16, 2003: Scientists 'reconstruct' Earth's climate over the past millenium -- ScienceDaily
December 12, 2003: Sunstorm electron clouds surrounding Earth studied -- Spaceflight Now
December 12, 2003: Earth's magnetic field weakens 10 percent -- Space.com
December 11, 2003: Chicago instrument will advance study of high-energy cosmic rays -- The University of Chicago Chronicle
December 10, 2003: UCSD physicists see solar electrons, auroras associated with recent geomagnetic storms -- EurekAlert!
December 8, 2003: Extensive destruction powers solar explosions -- NASA GSFC
December 8, 2003: Sun's power & violence revealed at AGU -- NASA
December 8, 2003: Earth's radiation belts spectacular following Halloween solar storms -- EurekAlert!
December 8, 2003: An Antarctic total solar eclipse -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 5, 2003: Dixieland auroras -- Science@NASA
December 4, 2003: Solar wind cracks Earth's magnetic field -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
December 3, 2003: Cracks in Earth's magnetic shield -- Science@NASA
December 3, 2003: Stormy space weather slips through the cracks -- NASA GSFC
December 2, 2003: SOHO Sun watcher celebrates 8 years in space -- Spaceflight Now
December 2, 2003: Solar activity reaches new high -- PhysicsWeb

NOVEMBER

November 28, 2003: Massive solar storms inflict little damage on Earth -- AGU Space Weather
November 28, 2003: Flare damages Mars Odyssey probe -- BBC News
November 26, 2003: Hot debate over solar storms -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
November 24, 2003: Sun 'sheds its skin like a snake' -- BBC News
November 23, 2003: SOHO tracks recent stormy regions on Sun's far side as they turn for second shot at Earth -- NASA GSFC
November 21, 2003: Perfect alignment for awesome aurora -- NASA GSFC
November 21, 2003: Solar eclipse sends scientists south -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
November 20, 2003: Voyager at 90 AU -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 19, 2003: Sun sheds skin and flips -- NASA GSFC
November 14, 2003: Three-ton experiment to cruise South Pole skies for cosmic rays -- Newswise
November 14, 2003: Fireballs from space -- ScienCentral
November 13, 2003: Neutron detector under development to monitor spacecraft radiation -- SpaceRef.com
November 13, 2003: Aurora Oklahoma -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 12, 2003: The Sun goes haywire -- Science@NASA
November 11, 2003: Solar flare 'reproduced' in lab -- BBC News
November 6, 2003: Flare Well AR 10486 -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 5, 2003: Latest Sun flare put at X28, strongest on record -- Space.com
November 5, 2003: What does the edge of the solar system look like? Ask Voyager. -- NASA
November 5, 2003: Voyager spacecraft approaches solar system's final frontier -- NASA JPL
November 4, 2003: What is happening to the Sun? -- BBC News
November 4, 2003: Space weather gone crazy -- another historic flare -- NASA GSFC
November 4, 2003: Here comes the sun, again and again and again -- CNN
November 4, 2003: PoSAT-1 cosmic ray experiment monitors massive solar particle event -- SpaceDaily
November 4, 2003: Aurora over Edmonton -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 3, 2003: Sounds in silence: Cassini eavesdrops on solar storms -- Space.com
November 3, 2003: Sun more active than for a millennium -- NewScientist.com

OCTOBER

October 31, 2003: Solar storm impacts may never be known -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
October 31, 2003: Very low-energy solar electron bursts and solar wind structure -- ACE News
October 30, 2003: Aurora in Colorado skies -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 30, 2003: Earth buffeted by big solar flare -- BBC News
October 30, 2003: Message to Congress embedded in huge space storm -- Space.com
October 30, 2003: Space weather forecast center faces stormy future -- Space.com
October 30, 2003: Another giant solar explosion follows Tuesday's enormous solar flare -- ESA News
October 29, 2003: The scoop on solar flares -- CNN
October 29, 2003: A powerful solar flare -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 29, 2003: Sun erupts in biggest storm in years -- CNN
October 28, 2003: Europe to develop new space weather services -- AGU Space Weather
October 28, 2003: From research model to forecasting tool -- AGU Space Weather
October 28, 2003: X 17.2 + 10.0 flares! -- Hot Shots from SOHO
October 28, 2003: Connecting the world's space agencies -- AGU Space Weather
October 28, 2003: Our Sun's regular mood swings -- BBC News
October 27, 2003: Large sunspot groups 10484 and 10486 -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 27, 2003: How do we predict solar activity and space weather? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
October 27, 2003: Angry sunspots continue to rumble -- BBC News
October 27, 2003: Solar storm reaches Earth; more activity expected -- SpaceDaily
October 25, 2003: Islands in the photosphere -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 25, 2003: Solar storm buffets Earth -- BBC News
October 24, 2003: NASA monitors solar flare activity during Space Station mission -- NASA
October 24, 2003: Earth put on solar storm alert -- BBC News
October 24, 2003: Cloud of solar gas strikes our planet -- CNN
October 24, 2003: House Science Committee: What is the forecast for the future of space weather prediction? -- SpaceRef.com
October 23, 2003: SOHO spots Jupiter-sized sunspot & Earth-directed flares -- NASA GSFC
October 23, 2003: NASA scientist dives into perfect space storm -- NASA JPL
October 23, 2003: New study seeks to identify and minimize danger to aviation from cosmic radiation -- ScienceDaily
October 23, 2003: Cosmic-ray detector breaks size record -- PhysicsWeb
October 21, 2003: SOHO's greatest hits: vote for your favorite Sun image -- Space.com
October 21, 2003: Evidence for an unusally active Sun -- AIP News
October 15, 2003: Revised periodic table slanted toward astronomers -- ScienceDaily
October 14, 2003: New NASA facility will help protect space crews from radiation -- SpaceRef.com
October 14, 2003: NASA and DOE dedicate new NASA facility at Brookhaven Lab -- Brookhaven National Laboratory
October 10, 2003: More global warming, less extinction -- The Korea Times
October 9, 2003: Radio Jupiter -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 1, 2003: NASA mission receives more "TIMED" -- NASA GSFC
October 1, 2003: Solar contribution to 'global warming' predicted to decrease -- EurekAlert!

SEPTEMBER

September 29, 2003: Aurora over the Chugach mountains -- NASA GSFC APOD
September 29, 2003: Prestigious award for SOHO team -- NASA GSFC
September 26, 2003: NASA selects two Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission proposals for feasibility studies -- NASA GSFC
September 26, 2003: Northern climate, ecosystems driven by cycles of changing sunlight -- ScienceDaily
September 24, 2003: Proposed budget cut would eliminate space weather forecasts -- Space.com
September 22, 2003: Merged Interaction Regions (MIRs) at 1 AU -- ACE News
September 20, 2003: Apollo 11: catching some Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
September 15, 2003: Solar flares from the galactic deep -- SpaceDaily
September 12, 2003: Why is the Sun red at sunset? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
September 12, 2003: Solar flares on steroids -- Science@NASA
September 11, 2003: Sudbury Neutrino Observatory reports new measurements - thanks to table salt! -- ScienceDaily
September 11, 2003: Sunlight makes asteroids spin in strange ways --Southwest Research Institute News
September 9, 2003: Solar wind makes waves; killer electrons go surfing? -- NASA GSFC
September 5, 2003: Solar flare serves up antimatter surprises -- Scientific American
September 5, 2003: The Dynamic Sun shines on Goddard -- NASA GSFC
September 4, 2003: Solar Transits: Tools of Discovery -- Space.com
September 2, 2003: Antimatter factory on Sun yields clues to solar explosions -- NASA GSFC
September 2, 2003: RHESSI satellite offers clues about how solar explosions act as particle accelerators -- UC Berkeley News

AUGUST

August 27, 2003: Astrophysicist recognized for discovery of solar wind -- National Geographic
August 27, 2003: Space dust flooding our solar system -- National Geographic
August 22, 2003: Galactic cosmic ray neon and iron-group isotopic abundances agree with Wolf-Rayet star model -- ACE News
August 22, 2003: Major flares are predictable on far-away stars, analysis of radio observations reveals -- EurekAlert
August 21, 2003: Flip a Sun's pole for more dust -- SpaceRef.com
August 20, 2003: It's no longer 'initials only' for solar physicist Dr. Hagyard -- SpaceDaily
August 18, 2003: Powerful geomagnetic storm sent out by the Sun -- SpaceRef.com
August 18, 2003: New metal-poor galaxies: the youngest in the universe? -- Sloan Digital Sky Survey
August 18, 2003: ESA sees stardust storms heading for solar system -- ESA
August 14, 2003: MINOS detector ready to take first data -- EurekAlert
August 13, 2003: Biggest cosmic explosions may also propel fastest objects in the universe -- NASA GSFC
August 9, 2003: A Perseid aurora -- NASA GSFC APOD
August 6, 2003: Source for major type of supernova explosions found -- Spaceflight Now
August 3, 2003: Ice fishing for cosmic neutrinos -- NASA GSFC APOD

JULY

July 29, 2003: Orange Sun simmering -- NASA GSFC APOD
July 21, 2003: Sun's microflares could play macro role in heating corona -- ScienceDaily
July 18, 2003: SOHO back on full duty watching Sun explode -- SpaceDaily
July 17, 2003: Same Sun. Different views. -- The Christian Science Monitor
July 17, 2003: Interstellar and heliospheric parameters derived from observations of pickup helium in the focusing cone -- ACE News
July 14, 2003: U.S. Air Force studies solar phenomenon -- Spaceflight Now
July 12, 2003: Rocket telescope sees Sun -- Spaceflight Now
July 9, 2003: The heat is on: New Sun-watcher finds solar flares hotter than hot -- Space.com
July 8, 2003: Rocket telescope gets closest look at the Sun -- NASA GSFC
July 7, 2003: At the edge of the Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
July 4, 2003: Debating the Sun's effect on climate -- BBC News
July 3, 2003: Minimal data loss expected from SOHO antenna problem -- Spaceflight Now

JUNE

June 30, 2003: State-of-the-art solar model fits massive 2002 eruption -- SpaceDaily
June 29, 2003: The Solar Spectrum -- NASA GSFC APOD
June 25, 2003: Powerful 'conveyor belts' drive Sun's 11-year cycle -- Spaceflight Now
June 24, 2003: The Sun's surface in 3D -- NASA GSFC APOD
June 23, 2003: KamLAND Verifies the Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
June 22, 2003: Nighttime clouds shed light on space weather -- Spaceflight Now
June 19, 2003: "Dark side" of the universe is coming to light -- National Geographic
June 19, 2003: Solar flares and global warming -- Physics News Update
June 18, 2003: Spacecraft trio peeks at secret recipe for stormy solar weather -- NASA GSFC
June 17, 2003: Scientists image 3-D surface of the sun -- Spaceflight Now
June 16, 2003: Solar tsunamis' used to study the solar corona -- Spaceflight Now
June 11, 2003: Sun acts up again -- Sky & Telescope
June 10, 2003: Correlation of solar particle onsets with the 3He/4He ratio -- ACE News
June 9, 2003: Jupiter's northern lights -- NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Picture of the Week
June 9, 2003: Comet X-ray emissions simulated in laboratory -- Spaceflight Now
June 6, 2003: Sun, Moon, hot air balloon -- NASA GSFC APOD
June 2, 2003: New observations revise view of solar neighborhood -- Scientific American

MAY

May 30, 2003: Solar eclipse -- Science@NASA
May 30, 2003: Sun to ring the Moon -- BBC News
May 28, 2003: RHESSI uncovers secret to cataclysmic explosions known as gamma-ray bursts -- UC Berkeley News
May 25, 2003: SOHO investigates source of 'fast' solar wind -- Spaceflight Now
May 23, 2003: Evidence for a suprathermal seed population of heavy ions accelerated by interplanetary shocks near 1 AU -- ACE News
May 23, 2003: Slingshots on the Sun -- Physical Review Focus
May 20, 2003: Five spacecraft join to solve an auroral puzzle -- AGU
May 19, 2003: An exploration extravaganza -- Spaceflight Now
May 2, 2003: Mercury crossing paths with Sun -- NASA GSFC
May 1, 2003: NESTOR sees muons at the bottom of the sea -- CERN Courier
May 1, 2003: Muons bend to beat the smuggler -- CERN Courier

APRIL

April 30, 2003: Finding the ashes of the first stars -- ESA Hubble Information Centre
April 23, 2003: Energetic He+: The 3rd most abundant ion - source and acceleration -- ACE News
April 12, 2003: Mapping the 'Cosmic Web' of dark matter -- Spaceflight Now
April 9, 2003: Maintenance on Voyager from 7 billion miles away -- Spaceflight Now
April 9, 2003: Swimming to the Sun -- NASA GSFC
April 8, 2003: Aurora from space -- NASA GSFC APOD
April 5, 2003: Galactic wind of low-energy cosmic rays claimed -- Spaceflight Now
April 3, 2003: How the Sun shines -- Space.com

MARCH

March 31, 2003: Headed south? -- Scientific American
March 28, 2003: Highly-fractionated impulsive solar flare events -- ACE News
March 27, 2003: Is the Earth preparing to flip? -- BBC News
March 27, 2003: The Core: Hollywood fiction or science? -- National Geographic
March 26, 2003: Double eruption on Sun -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
March 24, 2003: NASA teams with national education publisher -- NASA
March 24, 2003: Gamma-ray burst, supernova connection confirmed -- Spaceflight Now
March 24, 2003: UK seeks to go it alone in space -- BBC News
March 21, 2003: Goddard observes Sun-Earth Day -- NASA GSFC
March 20, 2003: NASA selects next medium-class Explorer mission -- NASA
March 20, 2003: NASA study finds increasing solar trend that can change climate -- NASA
March 19, 2003: New telescope is upside-down at the bottom of the sea -- Space.com
March 19, 2003: Cosmic particles could detect nuke materials, scientists say -- National Geographic
March 19, 2003: How does the Sun shine? -- Physics News Update
March 19, 2003: Cosmic rays could catch nuclear smugglers -- New Scientist
March 19, 2003: Radiation dangers for Mars astronauts downgraded -- Sky & Telescope
March 18, 2003: Coronal holes on the Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
March 15, 2003: NASA's Odyssey marks one year in orbit around Mars -- Spaceflight Now
March 14, 2003: Can events on the Sun be a hazard to airline flights? -- NASA GSFC
March 14, 2003: Europe's scientists help explain the Sun's connections to Earth -- ESA
March 14, 2003: Sun-Earth Day is March 18 -- NASA GSFC
March 6, 2003: Scientists pinpoint stellar production of helium, yielding new insights into the young universe -- EurekAlert

FEBRUARY

February 28, 2003: Black Widow pulsar spraying antimatter into space -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
February 25, 2003: Pioneer 10 spacecraft sends last signal -- NASA
February 20, 2003: ESA chairs the International Living With a Star programme -- ESA
February 20, 2003: Forecasting space weather: Predicting interplanetary shocks before they arrive at ACE -- ACE News
February 16, 2003: Auger experiment could resolve mystery of high-energy cosmic rays -- University of Chicago
February 14, 2003: Weather cells found to form around magnetic storms on solar surface -- University of Colorado at Boulder
February 14, 2003: UM researchers uncover piece to puzzle of magnetic explosions -- University of Maryland
February 11, 2003: Violent truth behind Sun's 'gentle giants' uncovered -- ScienceDaily
February 10, 2003: Violent truth behind Sun's 'gentle giants' uncovered -- SpaceRef.com
February 5, 2003: AGU to launch new space weather journal -- AGU

JANUARY

January 31, 2003: Auroral rocket launch -- NASA GSFC APOD
January 31, 2003: America marks 45th anniversary of first space satellite -- SpaceRef.com
January 31, 2003: NASA's SORCE satellite soars into space to catch some rays -- NASA GSFC
January 30, 2003: Environmental satellite readied to detect solar storms -- NASA GSFC
January 28, 2003: South Pole telescope follows trail of neutrinos -- Spaceflight Now
January 24, 2003: NASA assigns "Living with a Star missions" to APL -- NASA GSFC
January 24, 2003: SORCE spacecraft to be launched January 25 -- NASA GSFC
January 23, 2003: Launch of the Sun pillar -- NASA GSFC APOD
January 20, 2003: Magnetic 'slinky effect' may power aurora -- Spaceflight Now
January 17, 2003: The inconstant Sun -- Science@NASA
January 17, 2003: New look for Cerenkov radiation -- PhysicsWeb
January 17, 2003: What is the solar neutrino problem? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
January 16, 2003: Burping Moon may solve magnetism mystery -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
January 15, 2003: Early cosmic-ray research in Argentina -- Physics Today
January 12, 2003: Coronal activity may be buried alive in red giant stars -- Spaceflight Now
January 10, 2003: Where can you see auroras? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
January 8, 2003: Solar spitwads -- Science@NASA
January 8, 2003: Earth likely spared from one form of cosmic doom -- NASA GSFC
January 7, 2003: Coronal activity may be 'buried alive' in red giant stars -- Eurekalert
January 7, 2003: Nearby supernova factory announces 34 supernovae in one year -- Berkeley Lab
January 6, 2003: Near-Earth supernovas -- Science@NASA
January 6, 2003: Coriolis launched to track ocean winds, solar storms -- Spaceflight Now
January 3, 2003: Can the Earth's magnetic field just "dwindle away"? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
January 3, 2003: The Sun does the wave -- NASA GSFC
January 2, 2003: Suprathermal electrons in high-speed streams -- ACE News
January 1, 2003: Looking forward to physics at Tevatron Run II -- CERN
January 1, 2003: Cosmic accelerator reveals hot spots -- CERN

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