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News from 2010

DECEMBER

December 31, 2010: Analemma 2010 -- APOD
December 30, 2010: Broad longitudinal spread of 3He from impulsive solar energetic particle events -- ACE News
December 28, 2010: Seeing through the layers of the sun -- NASA GSFC Flickr
December 23, 2010: World's largest neutrino detector completed at South Pole -- Scientific American
December 21, 2010: Tyrrhenian Sea and solstice sky -- APOD
December 20, 2010: Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2010 (see #1) -- Physics World
December 19, 2010: M82: Galaxy with a supergalactic wind -- APOD
December 17, 2010: SORCE's solar spectral surprise -- NASA
December 16, 2010: First measurement of magnetic field in Earth's core -- Eurekalert
December 16, 2010: The Justice League Recombination -- Big Blog Theory
December 15, 2010: A huge solar filament erupts -- APOD
December 15, 2010: Voyager crosses the point of solar stillness -- Astrobiology
December 15, 2010: Atomic weights of 10 elements on period table about to make an historic change -- Eurekalert
December 15, 2010: NASA spies storm stretching across the sun -- Physics World
December 14, 2010: ESA makes the sun available to everyone -- ESA
December 14, 2010: Hot plasma explosions inflate Saturn's magnetic field -- NASA
December 13, 2010: NASA probe sees solar wind decline -- NASA
December 13, 2010: Global eruption rocks the sun -- NASA
December 8, 2010: Earth's core lightens up -- Nature
December 4, 2010: Sunset at the Spiral Jetty -- APOD
December 1, 2010: Solar observation mission celebrates 15 years -- NASA
December 1, 2010: Marcury serves up a nuclear surprise -- Nature

NOVEMBER

November 29, 2010: New particle links dark matter with missing antimatter -- Physics World
November 29, 2010: Collaborative LASP/Goddard sun-climate research center announced -- NASA
November 28, 2010: Anticrepuscular rays over Colorado -- APOD
November 26, 2010: Flame nebula close-up -- APOD
November 24, 2010: Flowing auroras over Norway -- APOD
November 23, 2010: The sun steals comets from other stars -- Science@NASA
November 23, 2010: Anomalous cosmic ray behavior at 1 AU during the unusual solar minimum -- ACE News
November 21, 2010: A massive star in NGC 6357 -- APOD
November 18, 2010: Profiling the largest solar explosions -- NASA
November 17, 2010: The International Space Weather Initiative -- NASA
November 17, 2010: Antimatter held for questioning -- Nature
November 15, 2010: NASA goes to the set of CBS's 'The Big Bang Theory' -- NASA
November 12, 2010: Sunspot 1123 hurls filament toward Earth -- NASA
November 11, 2010: LHC sees its first ZZ event -- Physics World
November 9, 2010: The many faces of the shear Alfven wave: 3-D movies are no longer just for Hollywood blockbusters -- Science Daily
November 8, 2010: CERN completes transition to lead-ion running at the LHC -- CERN
November 8, 2010: Scientists unlock the secrets of exploding plasma clouds on the sun -- Eurekalert
November 8, 2010: Getting to know the sun advances fusion research -- Eurekalert
November 8, 2010: Transmogrification -- HEAPOW
November 8, 2010: Sunspot 1121 unleashes X-ray flare -- NASA
November 8, 2010: The International Space Weather Initiative -- Science@NASA
November 8, 2010: Best ever image from a neodymium rare-earth magnet -- New Scientist
November 5, 2010: NASA extends TIMED mission for fourth time -- NASA
November 5, 2010: Neutral positronium scatters like a charged particle -- Physics World
November 3, 2010: Cosmic blasts hint at inner magnetars -- Nature
November 2, 2010: Spicules: Jets on the sun -- APOD
November 2, 2010: What is quantum mechanics good for? -- Scientific American
November 2, 2010: Fourth flavor of neutrino? -- Science Daily

OCTOBER

October 31, 2010: Isotope near 'doubly magic' tin-100 flouts conventional wisdom -- Science Daily
October 29, 2010: 'Best evidence yet' for dark matter comes from Milky Way centre -- Physics World
October 27, 2010: Dead spacecraft walking -- Science@NASA
October 26, 2010: Sun's northern hemisphere bristling with solar flares -- NASA
October 26, 2010: Solar shield -- Protecting the North American power grid -- Science@NASA
October 22, 2010: Sun flares up again -- New Scientist
October 22, 2010: NGC 7822 in Cepheus -- APOD
October 22, 2010: NASA simulates the sun's power on Earth to test hardware intended for space -- NASA
October 21, 2010: Heavy-ion ionic charge states: Tracing the source population for interplanetary shocks -- ACE News
October 21, 2010: Sailing toward the island of stability -- Science News
October 20, 2010: New space research settles years of scientific debate -- Eurekalert
October 19, 2010: Green light for Indian neutrino observatory -- Physics World
October 18, 2010: It came from the sun -- APOD
October 11, 2010: Giant star goes supernova -- and is smothered by its own dust -- Ohio State University
October 8, 2010: Black hole blasts superheated early universe -- National Geographic
October 7, 2010: Update on record-setting galactic cosmic ray intensities in 2009-2010 -- ACE News
October 6, 2010: Aurora over Alaska -- APOD
October 6, 2010: Sun's impact on climate change overestimated? -- National Geographic
October 6, 2010: Declining solar activity linked to recent warming -- Nature
October 5, 2010: MAVEN mission to investigate how sun steals Martian atmosphere -- NASA
October 4, 2010: Cluster helps disentangle turbulence in the solar wind -- NASA
October 2, 2010: The ever-changing edge of the solar system -- Astrobiology
October 1, 2010: Just how small is the proton? -- Scientific American
October 1, 2010: Sun's heliopause: A moving target -- Sky & Telescope
October 1, 2010: Q&A: Missions, meetings, and the radial tire model of the magnetosphere -- NASA
October 1, 2010: Pulsating aurorae secrets revealed -- National Geographic

SEPTEMBER

September 30, 2010: IBEX finds surprising changes at solar boundary -- NASA
September 27, 2010: The dancing auroras of Saturn -- APOD
September 24, 2010: Magnetic anomalies shield the moon -- Astronomy
September 24, 2010: Measuring the magnetism of light -- Physical Review Focus
September 23, 2010: Equinox and the iron sun -- APOD
September 21, 2010: Solar storms can change directions, surprising forecasters -- Science@NASA
September 20, 2010: Aurora over Norway -- APOD
September 17, 2010: Northern lights over Prelude Lake -- APOD
September 10, 2010: Supernova shrapnel found in meteorite -- Astronomy
September 15, 2010: Fast flip of Earth's poles -- Science News
September 12, 2010: Oklo: Ancient African nuclear reactors -- APOD
September 10, 2010: Searching the sun for dark matter -- Physics World
September 9, 2010: How can we use neutrinos to probe dark matter in the sun? -- Eurekalert
September 9, 2010: C3-class solar flare erupts on Sept. 8, 2010 -- NASA
September 3, 2010: NASA's magnetospheric mission passes major milestone -- NASA
September 2, 2010: The Bubble nebula -- APOD
September 2, 2010: NASA selects science investigations for Solar Probe Plus -- NASA
September 2, 2010: The sun's magnetic field warps its environment -- Physics World

AUGUST

August 30, 2010: The extremely high energy extragalactic sky -- HEAPOW
August 30, 2010: New sunspot pictures: Sharpest view yet in visible light -- National Geographic
August 30, 2010: Which ray?: Conflicting data on high-energy cosmic rays leave their source -- or sources -- unresolved -- Scientific American
August 28, 2010: Hole in the sun -- APOD
August 28, 2010: A strange solar flare connection -- Astrobiology
August 28, 2010: Mining for missing matter -- Science News
August 26, 2010: Shrinking atmospheric layer linked to low levels of solar radiation -- AGU
August 26, 2010: M27: Not a comet -- APOD
August 26, 2010: Distant star's sound waves reveal cycle simlar to sun -- NSF
August 19, 2010: Warning for solar flares -- Science News
August 18, 2010: Cosmic accelerators discovered in our galaxy -- Science Daily
August 17, 2010: IBEX maps the boundaries -- Astrobiology
August 17, 2010: IBEX mapping mission yields intriguing new studies about our solar system -- Astronomy
August 17, 2010: Milky Way magnets solve cosmic ray conundrum -- New Scientist
August 17, 2010: Lasers could make virtual particles real -- New Scientist
August 16, 2010: IBEX spacecraft finds discoveries close to home -- NASA
August 16, 2010: Evidence of new solar activity from observations of aurora in New Zealand -- Science Daily
August 12, 2010: Extended period of lower solar activity linked to changes in sun's conveyor belt -- NSF
August 10, 2010: Pictures: Huge solar storm triggers unusual auroras -- National Geographic
August 9, 2010: M-class solar flare erupts -- NASA
August 6, 2010: The not so quiet sun -- APOD
August 6, 2010: Activity from Aug. 1 CME subsides -- NASA
August 4, 2010: Long-sought connection found between Saturn's aurora and puzzling radio pulses -- AGU
August 4, 2010: Eclipse shadow cone over Patagonia -- APOD
August 4, 2010: Spacecraft observes coronal mass ejection -- NASA
August 3, 2010: Aurora alert: The sun is waking up -- Astronomy

JULY

July 30, 2010: Eclipse on the beach -- APOD
July 30, 2010: Taking a shot at the sun -- NASA
July 29, 2010: IceCube spies unexplained pattern of cosmic rays -- Astronomy
July 27, 2010: Spacequakes rumble near Earth -- Science@NASA
July 26, 2010: Reach for the sky -- HEAPOW
July 24, 2010: Diamond ring and shadow bands -- APOD
July 24, 2010: First light for Solar Dynamics Observatory -- Nature
July 21, 2010: The crown of the sun -- APOD
July 20, 2010: Collider gets yet more exotic 'to-do' list -- Nature
July 16, 2010: Shaping NGC 6188 -- APOD
July 16, 2010: Space weather turns into an international problem -- Science@NASA
July 15, 2010: Andes sunset eclipse -- APOD
July 15, 2010: A violent tail -- Science News
July 14, 2010: Easter Island eclipse -- APOD
July 12, 2010: That glow around Jupiter -- HEAPOW
July 12, 2010: Japanese solar sail successfully rides sunlight -- Space
July 9, 2010: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures profile of arcing active solar region -- NASA
July 7, 2010: How Planck's pain could be the LHC's gain -- New Scientist
July 7, 2010: The proton shrinks in size -- Nature
July 7, 2010: Incredible shrinking proton raises eyebrows -- New Scientist
July 7, 2010: Earth at farthest distance from sun -- why the heat wave? -- National Geographic
July 2, 2010: The coolest antiprotons -- Physical Review Focus
July 1, 2010: Above aurora australis -- APOD
July 1, 2010: 2010's total eclipse of the sun -- Astronomy
July 1, 2010: Ultra-precise test confirms photons are bosons -- Physics World

JUNE

June 30, 2010: Radiation fears stalk stellar mission -- Physics World
June 29, 2010: All the colors of the sun -- APOD
June 29, 2010: NASA retires TRACE spacecraft after highly successful mission -- NASA
June 28, 2010: Current sheets as intermittent structures: ACE/MAG observations -- ACE News
June 28, 2010: Voyager 2 at 12,000 days: The super-marathon continues -- NASA
June 25, 2010: Hotspots leave magnetic scars on Mars -- Nature
June 23, 2010: Sunset from the International Space Station -- APOD
June 22, 2010: God particle signal is simulated as sound -- BBC
June 22, 2010: Space weather signal buried in x-ray noise -- Science
June 21, 2010: Sunrise solstice at Stonehenge -- APOD
June 19, 2010: Music of the sun recorded by scientists -- Telegraph
June 18, 2010: Neutrino surprise emerges from MINOS -- Physics World
June 16, 2010: "God particle" may be five distinct particles, new evidence shows -- National Geographic
June 15, 2010: Enigmatic star could emerge from its gassy cocoon -- Nature
June 14, 2010: GOES-15 solar x-ray imager's miraculous first light -- NASA
June 11, 2010: Our naughty sun -- Geeked on Goddard blog
June 10, 2010: The sun as comet snatcher -- Nature
June 9, 2010: Orange sun simmering -- APOD
June 8, 2010: Does dark matter come in two types? -- Physics World
June 8, 2010: Man-made aurora to help predict space weather -- Eurekalert
June 8, 2010: NASA's FASTSAT satellite readies for shipment to Alaska -- NASA
June 5, 2010: Thor's Helmet -- APOD
June 4, 2010: Hubble remix: Active galaxy NGC 1275 -- APOD
June 4, 2010: As the sun awakens, NASA keeps a wary eye on space weather -- Science@NASA
June 2, 2010: CREAM team finds surprising features in cosmic ray energy spectra -- University of Maryland

MAY

May 27, 2010: Solar scientists agree that the sun's recent behavior is odd, but the explanation remains elusive -- Scientific American
May 26, 2010: Muon whose army? A tiny particle's big moment -- New Scientist
May 26, 2010: NASA probe spots huge plasma ejections -- Physics World
May 26, 2010: Why I love neutrinos -- Scientific American
May 25, 2010: Why NASA keeps a close eye on the Sun's irradiance -- NASA
May 25, 2010: The Glory mission's Judith Lean discusses solar variability -- NASA
May 25, 2010: Spacecraft reveals small solar events have large scale effects -- NASA
May 24, 2010: Aluminum sure can -- HEAPOW
May 23, 2010: Station and Shuttle transit the Sun -- APOD
May 23, 2010: Evidence for why we exist -- Astrobiology
May 22, 2010: Dark filament of the Sun -- APOD
May 20, 2010: M87: Elliptical galaxy with jet -- APOD
May 19, 2010: Astrophysicists uncover demise of a star under surprising circumstances -- Astronomy
May 19, 2010: Possible new class of supernovae puts calcium in your bones -- Eurekalert
May 17, 2010: Missing no more? -- HEAPOW
May 13, 2010: The magnificent Horsehead nebula -- APOD
May 13, 2010: Sun's size is "rock steady" -- Sky & Telescope
May 11, 2010: Earth's magnetic field gathers momentum -- Physics World
May 10, 2010: Large eruptive prominence movie from SDO -- APOD
May 8, 2010: Quantum wonders: The field that isn't there -- New Scientist
May 7, 2010: Cosmic rays help make small galaxies invisible -- New Scientist
May 6, 2010: Northern and Southern Owls -- APOD
May 6, 2010: Dark matter 'no result' comes under fire -- Physics World
May 3, 2010: Shortage of accelerator physicists getting worse -- Symmetry
May 1, 2010: A pulsar's hand -- APOD

APRIL

April 30, 2010: Supernova's beginning blast shown in 3-D -- A first -- National Geographic
April 30, 2010: Mapping turbulence in the solar wind -- Physical Review Focus
April 28, 2010: Sunset on a golden sea -- APOD
April 27, 2010: SDO observes massive eruption, scorching rain -- Science@NASA
April 26, 2010: Dust pillar of the Carina nebula -- APOD
April 23, 2010: SDO: The extreme ultraviolet Sun -- APOD
April 23, 2010: Sun erupts: Epic blast seen by NASA solar observatory -- National Geographic
April 23, 2010: Decaying beauty spied for first time by LHC -- New Scientist
April 22, 2010: Urgent refit for space magnet -- Nature
April 21, 2010: Wide angle: The Cat's Paw nebula -- APOD
April 21, 2010: NASA's new eye on the Sun delivers stunning first images -- NASA
April 21, 2010: First light for the Solar Dynamics Observatory -- Science@NASA
April 20, 2010: Lightning creates particle accelerators above Earth -- National Geographic
April 19, 2010: Spatial offsets of interplanetary ion and electron source regions -- ACE News
April 19, 2010: Blame the volcano trouble on Sun and global warming -- New Scientist
April 19, 2010: Physicists find a particle accelerator in the sky -- Physics World
April 18, 2010: Large eruptive prominence imaged by STEREO -- APOD
April 17, 2010: What's the (dark) matter? -- Scientific American
April 16, 2010: Bright points on the quiet Sun -- APOD
April 16, 2010: Lunar polar craters may be electrified -- NASA
April 15, 2010: Enceladus leaves plasma bubbles in its wake -- Astronomy
April 15, 2010: Roman ingots to shield particle detector -- Nature
April 14, 2010: Scientists track solar explosion all the way from the Sun to Earth -- Astronomy
April 14, 2010: Pinning down a proton -- North Carolina State University
April 14, 2010: Mini magnetic shield found on the Moon -- National Geographic
April 14, 2010: Ebbing sunspot activity makes Europe freeze -- Nature
April 14, 2010: Sun blamed for Europe's colder winters -- Physics World
April 14, 2010: Sun's threat to power grids -- Scientific American
April 14, 2010: Mercury's magnetic twisters -- Science News
April 12, 2010: Cluster spacecraft take first look at acceleration processes driving aurorae -- Astronomy
April 12, 2010: Magnetic 'ropes' tie down solar eruptions -- Astronomy
April 12, 2010: Dust and the wind -- HEAPOW
April 9, 2010: Exploring the island of superheavy elements -- Physics
April 8, 2010: The Sun erupts from its lengthy slumber -- ACE News
April 5, 2010: Boosting the background -- HEAPOW
April 2, 2010: "Roaming" magnetic fields found -- National Geographic
April 2, 2010: Mass of the common quark finally nailed down -- Science

MARCH

March 30, 2010: LHC research programme gets underway -- CERN
March 30, 2010: The Sun comes back to life -- ESA
March 30, 2010: For one tiny instant, physicists may have broken a law of nature -- Science Daily
March 29, 2010: After the next sunset, please turn right -- Max Planck Society
March 29, 2010: Zoologger: Magneto-bat steers by a built-in compass -- New Scientist
March 25, 2010: Direct measurement of the turbulent cascade in interplanetary space -- ACE News
March 24, 2010: Physics: The Large Human Collider -- Nature
March 23, 2010: Reinvigorated Sun and prominence -- APOD
March 23, 2010: Black holes may hint at the nature of dark matter -- Astronomy
March 23, 2010: New method could revolutionize dating of ancient treasures -- Eurekalert
March 23, 2010: Dark energy: The biggest mystery in the Universe -- Smithsonian
March 22, 2010: Helium rain on Jupiter explains lack of neon in atmosphere -- Eurekalert
March 22, 2010: Process in big-screen plasma TVs can produce ultra-clean fuel -- Eurekalert
March 22, 2010: About to go boom -- HEAPOW
March 21, 2010: Equinox + 1 -- APOD
March 19, 2010: Vernal equinox 2010: Facts on the first day of spring -- National Geographic
March 18, 2010: Fermi catalogs the gamma-ray sky -- APOD
March 17, 2010: Golden ratio seen in a magnet -- Nature
March 17, 2010: Fake dark matter could show what real stuff is like -- New Scientist
March 17, 2010: Scientists supersize quantum mechanics -- Nature
March 17, 2010: Hunt for the sterile neutrino heats up -- Nature
March 16, 2010: Detailed view of a solar eclipse corona -- APOD
March 16, 2010: Simulations solve a 20-year-old riddle about why nebulae around massive stars don't disappear -- Eurekalert
March 15, 2010: Frogs, foam and fuel: UC researchers convert solar energy to sugars -- University of Cincinnati
March 15, 2010: Seeking dark matter on a desktop -- SLAC
March 15, 2010: For kids: Heaviest named element is official -- Science News
March 12, 2010: Solar 'current of fire' speeds up -- Science@NASA
March 12, 2010: Borexino bags geoneutrinos -- Physics World
March 11, 2010: New merged data set for enhanced solar wind proton data from ACE -- ACE News
March 11, 2010: Yukon aurora with star trails -- APOD
March 11, 2010: Solar wind pulses help blow away martian atmosphere -- Astronomy
March 11, 2010: Shocking recipe for making killer electrons -- ESA
March 10, 2010: The battle between the Earth and Sun -- Astrobiology
March 9, 2010: Earth's magnetic field older than we thought -- Physics World
March 8, 2010: The folklore surrounding the aurora -- 365 Days of Astronomy
March 7, 2010: Proton collisions detected at unprecedented levels of energy -- Science Daily
March 6, 2010: Pillar at sunset -- APOD
March 5, 2010: Liquid metal stirs itself -- Physical Review Focus
March 4, 2010: Shields down! Earth's mag field may drop in a flash -- New Scientist
March 4, 2010: Exotic antimatter detected at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider -- Brookhaven National Lab
March 2, 2010: NASA's Fermi probes "dragons" of the gamma-ray sky -- NASA
March 1, 2010: Astronomically large lenses measure the age and size of the Universe -- SLAC
March 1, 2010: Focusing on the accelerators -- HEAPOW
March 1, 2010: Dark matter could meet its nemesis on Earth -- New Scientist
March 1, 2010: Air showers from ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays -- Physics
March 1, 2010: World's mightiest solar boat unveiled -- Scientific American

FEBRUARY

February 28, 2010: Pauli Exclusion Principle: Why you don't implode -- APOD
February 26, 2010: First observation of T2K neutrino event at Super-Kamiokande -- Astronomy
February 26, 2010: Solar storms could be Earth's next Katrina -- NPR
February 26, 2010: A quiet Sun won't save us from global warming -- New Scientist (NASA's Global Climate Change website)
February 26, 2010: A CoGeNT result in the hunt for dark matter -- Nature
February 25, 2010: Naming an atomic heavyweight -- Science News
February 23, 2010: Exceptional rocket waves destroy sun dog -- APOD
February 23, 2010: Public invited to spot and track solar storms -- Astronomy
February 23, 2010: NASA unveils new space-weather science tool -- NASA
February 22, 2010: Making use of neutrons -- Chemical & Engineering News
February 18, 2010: Fermi pins down a colossal accelerator -- Physics World
February 18, 2010: Cool movie: SDO destroys a sundog -- Science@NASA
February 18, 2010: Jets of particles streaming from black holes in far-away galaxies different than previously thought -- Science Daily
February 17, 2010: CU-Boulder physics professors help create hottest temperature in the Universe -- Eurekalert
February 17, 2010: 3D Sun for the iPhone -- Science@NASA
February 16, 2010: Voyager's group portrait -- Astrobiology magazine
February 16, 2010: NASA's Fermi closes on source of cosmic rays -- NASA
February 16, 2010: Subatomic soup is hot stuff -- Nature
February 12, 2010: Scientists explore the future of high-energy physics -- Science Daily
February 11, 2010: NASA successfully launches a new eye on the Sun -- NASA
February 11, 2010: A new view of our volatile star -- Physics World
February 11, 2010: Saturn's aurorae offer stunning double show -- Eurekalert
February 9, 2010: A new 3D map of the interstellar gas within 300 parsecs from the Sun -- Astronomy & Astrophysics
February 9, 2010: SDO to spike vital space weather data -- NASA
February 8, 2010: A Sun halo over Cambodia -- APOD
February 8, 2010: Q and A with SDO Program Executive Dana Brewer -- NASA
February 5, 2010: Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'variable Sun' mission -- Science@NASA
February 4, 2010: $32 million CU-Boulder instrument package to study space weather set for NASA launch Feb. 9 -- Eurekalert
February 1, 2010: Storms in space disrupt travel on Earth -- NPR

JANUARY

January 31, 2010: Plasma experiments aboard International Space Station yielding better picture of liquids and solids -- Science Daily
January 28, 2010: Fusion power a step closer after giant laser blast -- National Geographic
January 28, 2010: Planetary physics shrunk into a lab as MIT pursues fusion -- Physics World
January 27, 2010: Renowned UC San Diego astrophycist and astronomer dies at 84 -- Astronomy.com
January 27, 2010: Helium sell-off risks future supply -- Physics World
January 26, 2010: Annular eclipse over Myanmar -- APOD
January 26, 2010: A flare for forecasting: Sun seismology points to better solar weather predictions -- Scientific American
January 26, 2010: Technology-testing Proba-2 opens new eye on the Sun -- ESA
January 25, 2010: Sun's appetite for dark matter may affect Earth's orbit -- Physics World
January 24, 2010: Levitating magnet may yield new approach to clean energy -- Science Daily
January 23, 2010: Eclipses in the shade -- APOD
January 22, 2010: Millennium annular solar eclipse -- APOD
January 22, 2010: National Science Foundation selects National Solar Observatory to build world's largest solar telescope -- Astronomy.com
January 20, 2010: Multiple rifts in Earth's magnetic shield -- ESA
January 19, 2010: Science at the end of the Earth, Part II -- Blueshift podcast
January 19, 2010: Painless plasma jets could replace dentist's drill -- Eurekalert
January 18, 2010: Eclipse over the Temple of Poseidon -- APOD
January 16, 2010: New year sungrazer -- APOD
January 15, 2010: Giant ribbon at the edge of the solar system: Mystery solved? -- Science@NASA
January 15, 2010: Eclipse photos: "Ring of Fire" shines over Africa, Asia -- National Geographic
January 13, 2010: Giant magnetic loop sweeps through space between stellar pair -- NRAO
January 12, 2010: Solar scientists use 'magnetic mirror effect' to reproduce IBEX observation -- NASA
January 9, 2010: Dark matter and dark energy update -- Sky & Telescope
January 8, 2010: Neutrino data to flow in 2010; NOvA scientists tune design -- Eurekalert
January 7, 2010: Why won't the supernova explode? -- Science@NASA
January 7, 2010: Astronomers map dark matter 'beach ball' -- NPR
January 5, 2010: Eclipses yield first images of elusive iron line in solar corona -- NASA
January 2, 2010: Experiment detects particles of dark matter, maybe -- Science News


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