News from 2005

DECEMBER

December 29, 2005: Chandra looks back at Earth, sees aurora dance in X-rays -- Spaceflight Now
December 21, 2005: Sunrise by season -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 16, 2005: New solar wind data products -- ACE News
December 14, 2005: Triggering solar mayhem -- Physical Review Focus
December 14, 2005: Physicists find evidence for highest energy photons ever detected from Milky Way's equator -- EurekAlert!
December 13, 2005: Hundreds of auroras detected on Mars -- ScienceDaily
December 7, 2005: Space weather bulletins -- Astronomy.com
December 6, 2005: Way-out weather: cold fronts in space -- Space.com
December 2, 2005: SOHO celebrates 10 years in space -- Astronomy.com
December 1, 2005: SOHO's uninterrupted view of the Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD

NOVEMBER

November 29, 2005: Intrepid solar spacecraft celebrates 10th anniversary -- SpaceRef.com
November 28, 2005: SOHO watches solar coronal mass ejection -- SpaceDaily
November 26, 2005: A stereo sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 20, 2005: Rays from an unexpected aurora -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 18, 2005: Radiation resistant computers -- Science@NASA
November 16, 2005: Double vision: STEREO spacecraft to scan Sun in 3D -- Space.com
November 16, 2005: Sun-watching takes center stage -- Astronomy.com
November 15, 2005: Cosmochemist to receive National Medal of Science -- EurekAlert!
November 10, 2005: Messengers from the extreme universe -- PhysOrg.com
November 9, 2005: A solar prominence from SOHO -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 9, 2005: STEREO spacecraft arrive at NASA Goddard for final testing -- NASA GSFC
November 7, 2005: Effects of interplanetary shocks on energetic particles -- ACE News
November 6, 2005: A sunspot up close -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 5, 2005: Aurora from space -- NASA GSFC APOD

OCTOBER

October 26, 2005: An odd list of body parts -- Science@NASA
October 14, 2005: Eclipse shirt -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 14, 2005: What is "space weather", and why should I care? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
October 9, 2005: Who's afraid of a solar flare? -- SpaceDaily
October 7, 2005: Eclipse Madrid -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 7, 2005: St. Jude Medical discovers cosmic radiation can affect memory chip in limited number of older generation ICDs -- St. Jude Medical News
October 7, 2005: Ulysses, fifteen years and going strong -- SpaceRef.com
October 5, 2005: Annular solar eclipse at high resolution -- NASA GSFC APOD

SEPTEMBER

September 29, 2005: Annular solar eclipse on October 03 -- SpaceDaily
September 28, 2005: Ultraheavy elements in solar particles with >10 MeV/nucleon -- ACE News
September 27, 2005: Voyager finds three surprises near our solar system's edge -- PhysOrg.com
September 26, 2005: Voyager 1: messages from the edge -- SpaceRef.com
September 22, 2005: Tycho's remnant provides shocking evidence for cosmic rays -- EurekAlert!
September 20, 2005: Spacecraft pick up earthly aurora -- SpaceDaily
September 16, 2005: Northern lights, September skies -- NASA GSFC APOD
September 15, 2005: Solar minimum explodes -- Science@NASA
September 13, 2005: Aurorae on the way? -- Astronomy.com
September 12, 2005: AFWA monitors record solar flare -- SpaceDaily
September 10, 2005: Scientific breakthrough will help protect astronauts and spacecraft -- SpaceRef.com
September 9, 2005: NOAA issues another space weather warning; powerful solar flare erupts -- NOAA News
September 8, 2005: Radioactive Moon -- Science@NASA
September 8, 2005: Sun kicks up major flare, more expected -- Space.com

AUGUST

August 30, 2005: Wave activity near interplanetary traveling shocks: excitation of Alfven and ion whistler waves -- ACE News
August 16, 2005: NASA scientists closer to timely space weather forecasts -- NASA HQ
August 14, 2005: Heating coronal loops -- NASA GSFC APOD
August 11, 2005: From 'macro' to 'micro,' turbulence seen by cluster -- SpaceDaily
August 9, 2005: Space weather could scrub manned Mars mission -- National Geographic
August 9, 2005: Scientists weather a space storm to find its origin -- SpaceDaily
August 8, 2005: Cosmic rays 'harm pilots' sight' -- BBC News
August 7, 2005: Dueling auroras -- NASA GSFC APOD
August 5, 2005: Space weather forecasts clear communication -- SpaceRef.com

JULY

July 29, 2005: ISS and Discovery transit the Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
July 27, 2005: NASA's Chandra neon discovery solves solar paradox -- NASA HQ
July 23, 2005: SOHO watches Saturn and Cassini pass behind the Sun -- SpaceRef.com
July 15, 2005: Supernovae give off blasts of cosmic rays that bombard the Earth and change its surface rocks -- SpaceRef.com
July 12, 2005: Space storms -- ScienCentral
July 8, 2005: Evidence for preferential mass per charge dependent acceleration prior to stripping in impulsive events -- ACE News

JUNE

June 24, 2005: A force field for astronauts? -- Science@NASA
June 13, 2005: NOAA announces impending launch of GOES-N spacecraft -- NOAA
June 10, 2005: A new kind of solar storm -- Science@NASA
June 8, 2005: Colorado chosen for cosmic ray observatory -- Space.com
June 3, 2005: Stay tuned for a STEREO view of stormy space weather -- NASA GSFC
June 2, 2005: Voyager 1 at solar system edge, scientists now agree -- National Geographic News

MAY

May 27, 2005: Solar fireworks signal new space weather mystery -- Spaceflight Now
May 27, 2005: Reaching the solar system's edge -- Astronomy.com
May 26, 2005: NCAR research sheds light on solar storms -- National Center for Atmospheric Research
May 25, 2005: NASA's Chandra finds Saturn reflects X-rays from Sun -- NASA HQ
May 24, 2005: Solar fireworks signal new space weather mystery -- NASA HQ
May 24, 2005: Voyager spacecraft enters solar system's final frontier -- NASA JPL
May 20, 2005: NASA's AcrimSat solar spacecraft completes five-year mission -- NASA JPL
May 20, 2005: Aurora Iowa -- NASA GSFC APOD
May 18, 2005: Ultra-high energy cosmic particles produce unusual radio flash -- Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
May 16, 2005: Solar flares may beach whales -- Australian Broadcasting Company
May 16, 2005: Major solar storm Monday caused top level geomagnetic storm -- SpaceDaily
May 15, 2005: NOAA issues space weather warning -- NOAA
May 11, 2005: CU-Boulder to receive $12 million to participate in solar space mission -- SpaceRef.com
May 11, 2005: Sun flares may have spawned Earth -- Australian Broadcasting Company
May 11, 2005: Whimpers from the Sun? -- PPARC
May 10, 2005: Roman portents probe the Sun -- Astronomy.com
May 10, 2005: Deep roots of solar wind help predict space environment -- Southwest Research Institute
May 9, 2005: Mysterious cancer -- Science@NASA
May 6, 2005: Hybrid solar eclipse -- NASA GSFC APOD
May 5, 2005: Solar myth -- Science@NASA
May 3, 2005: NASA selects Magnetospheric MultiScale instrument suite team -- NASA HQ

APRIL

April 29, 2005: Stay tuned for a STEREO view of stormy space weather -- SpaceDaily
April 27, 2005: Join in the search for SOHO's thousandth comet -- SpaceDaily
April 22, 2005: Solar wind originates in coronal funnels -- Max Planck Society
April 22, 2005: Astronauts' children unlikely to inherit cosmic ray-induced genetic defects -- ScienceDaily
April 20, 2005: NASA announces key Genesis science collectors in excellent shape -- NASA HQ
April 18, 2005: Determination of dissipation range spectra in the solar wind -- ACE News
April 12, 2005: Study probes solar eruptions -- CNN.com
April 11, 2005: Clouds, plane, Sun, eclipse -- NASA GSFC APOD
April 11, 2005: Eclipse success at sea -- Astronomy.com
April 7, 2005: Solar eclipse in view -- NASA GSFC APOD
April 6, 2005: UK provides e-ffective access to upcoming Solar Dynamics Observatory -- SpaceDaily
April 6, 2005: Solving the mystery of solar flares -- SpaceRef.com
April 5, 2005: A solar eclipse rarity -- Astronomy.com
April 5, 2005: NASA study finds Earth's auroras are not mirror images -- NASA HQ
April 1, 2005: Solar eclipse -- Science@NASA

MARCH

March 31, 2005: Archive trawl gives BISON three decades of solar music -- SpaceDaily
March 30, 2005: Picking up where Genesis left off -- CNN.com
March 24, 2005: Cosmic rays enter the "dark" age -- PhysicsWeb
March 15, 2005: The distortion of the heliosphere: our interstellar magnetic compass -- SpaceRef.com
March 9, 2005: Magnetic disconnection from the Sun -- ACE News
March 7, 2005: Jupiter: A cloudy mirror for the Sun? -- PPARC
March 3, 2005: NASA study suggests giant space clouds iced Earth -- NASA HQ
March 3, 2005: Genesis crash may yield results -- BBC News
March 1, 2005: Huge 2004 stratospheric ozone loss tied to solar storms, arctic winds -- American Geophysical Union
March 1, 2005: Balloon experiment searches for antiparticles above the Antarctic -- CERN Courier

FEBRUARY

February 27, 2005: The solar spectrum -- NASA GSFC APOD
February 23, 2005: Cosmic insight into pyramids, volcanoes and nuclear contraband -- LiveScience
February 23, 2005: Space weather aspects of the January 20, 2005 solar energetic particle event -- ACE News
February 23, 2005: Cosmic rays reveal past and present secrets -- MSNBC
February 22, 2005: Solar tadpoles wave at astrophysicists -- EurekAlert!
February 16, 2005: Sunspot metamorphosis: from bottom to top -- NASA GSFC APOD
February 4, 2005: Sunspot cycles: deciphering the butterfly pattern -- National Geographic
February 2, 2005: NYU physicist isolates first source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays -- ScienceDaily

JANUARY

January 28, 2005: NASA research balloon makes record-breaking flight -- NASA HQ
January 27, 2005: Sickening solar flares -- Science@NASA
January 27, 2005: Powerful cosmic-ray source found -- Astronomy.com
January 27, 2005: NASA sends first Genesis early-science sample to researchers -- NASA HQ
January 26, 2005: SOHO offers comet contest -- CNN
January 21, 2005: Sunspot cluster ejects huge radiation storm -- New Scientist
January 20, 2005: Sensor system to gauge effects of cosmic rays on lunar explorers -- EurekAlert!
January 20, 2005: As winter grips most of the nation, there's plenty of space weather too -- SpaceRef.com
January 20, 2005: Rare spate of solar storms bombards spacecraft -- Space.com
January 18, 2005: Blazing speed: the fastest stuff in the universe -- Space.com
January 18, 2005: Powerful solar storm to hit Earth by Wednesday -- Space.com
January 17, 2005: Possible breakthrough study of material from beyond our galaxy -- Space.com
January 12, 2005: NYU physicist isolates first source -- EurekAlert!

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