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TODAY: Astronomy Picture of the
Day -- NASA GSFC
AUGUST
August 28, 2008: Fermi's first
light -- APOD
August 28, 2008: Cluster
watches Earth's leaky atmosphere -- ESA
August 26, 2008: XMM-Newton's
massive discovery -- Astronomy.com
August 26, 2008: NASA
renames observatory for Fermi, reveals entire gamma-ray sky --
NASA
August 25, 2008: 'Magnetic
cows' are visible from space -- Nature
August 25, 2008: Double
first for Large Hadron Collider -- Nature
August 23, 2008: The matter of
the Bullet Cluster -- APOD
August 22, 2008: Active Galaxy
NGC 1275 -- APOD
August 22, 2008: Some
solar flares may be caused by dark matter -- New Scientist
August 21, 2008: August moons
-- APOD
August 21, 2008: Sunspot
pair observed today -- Universe Today
August 19, 2008: Chemist
travels world to study mysterious properties of neutrinos --
Brookhaven National Lab
August 19, 2008: Living
with a star -- Science@NASA
August 18, 2008: Baily's beads
near solar eclipse totality -- APOD
August 13, 2008: NGC 6888: The
Crescent Nebula -- APOD
August 13, 2008: Physicists
await dark matter confirmation -- Nature
August 8, 2008: The crown of the
sun -- APOD
August 7, 2008: At the sun's
edge -- APOD
August 6, 2008: Jupiter
and Saturn full of liquid metal helium -- UC Berkeley
August 5, 2008: A total solar
eclipse over China -- APOD
August 5, 2008: Eclipse
darkens NW China, a week before Olympics -- Scientific American
August 4, 2008: China
becomes a physics powerhouse -- Science Daily
August 2, 2008: Eclipse
shirt -- APOD
August 1, 2008: Eclipse
blankets Russia; thousands watch in awe -- Scientific American
JULY
July 31, 2008: A
brief history of solar sails -- Science@NASA
July 31, 2008: Eclipse
expert makes hot finds in sun's darkest hour -- National
Geographic
July 31, 2008: Solar-cell
material can soak up more sun -- New Scientist
July 30, 2008: The
International Space Station transits the sun -- APOD
July 30, 2008: Voyaging
to the stars on a solar breeze -- Scientific American
July 29, 2008: Partial
eclipse, total fun -- Science@NASA
July 29, 2008: News:
Q&A - Edward Weiler -- Nature
July 29, 2008: Timeline:
The 1859 solar superstorm -- Scientific American
July 28, 2008: Bracing
the satellite infrastructure for a solar superstorm -- Scientific
American
July 26, 2008: Central IC
1805 -- APOD
July 25, 2008: The
secrets of the northern lights -- Astronomy.com
July 25, 2008: 'Impressionist'
spacecraft to view Solar System's invisible frontier -- NASA
July 25, 2008: Tracking
down origin of matter and antimatter -- Science Daily
July 24, 2008: Aurora
"power surges" triggered by magnetic explosions -- National
Geographic
July 24, 2008: NASA
satellites discover what powers northern lights -- NASA HQ
July 23, 2008: Magnetic
fields stronger than expected -- Astronomy.com
July 22, 2008: Total
solar eclipse on August 1: Where, how to see it -- National
Geographic
July 21, 2008: APL-led
team wins NSF grant to develop new observatory for Earth's space
environment -- JHU APL
July 19, 2008: Early
galaxies had magnetic fields as strong as today's -- New Scientist
July 19, 2008: Asteroid
switched Mars' magnetic field on and off -- New Scientist
July 18, 2008: A super mix inside neutron
stars -- Physical Review Focus
July 16, 2008: Where
balloons have made advances -- Nature
July 16, 2008: Galaxies'
mysterious magnetic fields grew up fast -- Scientific American
July 14, 2008: Particles
retain weight for billions of years -- Space.com
July 11, 2008: The Far 3kpc
Arm -- APOD
July 11, 2008: What's
wrong with the sun? (Nothing) -- Science@NASA
July 11, 2008: Japanese
particle-physics leader dies -- Physics World
July 10, 2008: Science: Simple,
inexpensive solar energy from light-absorbing dyes -- AAAS
July 10, 2008: Enhanced color Caloris -- APOD
July 10, 2008: R&D
100 award for new UM-NIST neutron detector -- University of
Maryland
July 9, 2008: Voyager
2 finds edge of solar system more complex than predicted -- JHU
APL
July 9, 2008: Study
puts solar spin on asteroids, their moons and Earth impacts --
University of Maryland
July 9, 2008: Physicists
discover new particle: The bottom-most "Bottomonium" -- SLAC
July 5, 2008: First
underwater neutrino telescope has been constructed -- Science
Daily
July 4, 2008: SN1006
supernova remnant -- APOD
July 2, 2008: STEREO
creates first images of the solar system's invisible frontier --
NASA
July 2, 2008: Who
knew? Solar system is 'dented', not round -- CNN
July 2, 2008: As
LHC draws nigh, Nobelists outline dreams -- and nightmares --
Scientific American
July 1, 2008: Solar
Shield experiment aims to keep the power on -- NASA GSFC
JUNE
June 30, 2008: Earth's core, magnetic field changing fast, study says -- National
Geographic
June 30, 2008: Satellites
pinpoint Earth's auroral radio chatter -- Scientific American
June 26, 2008: Dark
matter is denser in the solar system -- Universe Today
June 24, 2008: 'Frozen'
stars could shed light on dark matter -- New Scientist
June 23, 2008: Ancient
eclipse found in "The Odyssey", scientists say -- National
Geographic
June 23, 2008: XMM-Newton
watches lazy pulsar being jazzed up by companion -- ESA
June 21, 2008: 2012:
No killer solar flare -- Universe Today
June 18, 2008: GPS
inaccurate during space storms -- Space.com
June 18, 2008: The mystery
of Satern's double aurorae -- Sky & Telescope
June 13, 2008: At last,
GLAST -- APOD
June 10, 2008: Detective
astronomers unearth hidden celestial gem -- ESA
June 10, 2008: NASA
plans to visit the sun -- Science@NASA
June 9, 2008: Radio
waves from Earth clear out space radiation belt -- New Scientist
June 9, 2008: Magnetic
sensor that brooks no interference -- Science Daily
June 9, 2008: Sun
goes longer than normal without producing sunspots -- Science
Daily
June 7, 2008: Can a wormhole generate its
own magnetic field? -- Universe Today
June 5, 2008: sun's corona
puts a twist on its pitches -- Sky & Telescope
June 5, 2008: Communications glitch
delays Mars lander digging -- Physorg
June 5, 2008: Military
transmitter points to flare cure -- Australian Broadcasting
Company
June 4, 2008: Physicists
to target neutrinos -- Nature
June 4, 2008: Iron
snow behind Mercury's magnetism -- Scientific American
June 3, 2008: Super-luminous
supernovae -- Astronomy.com
June 3, 2008: Protons
pair up with neutrons -- Brookhaven National Laboratory
June 3, 2008: Giant
"tornadoes" seen erupting from the sun -- National Geographic
June 2, 2008: What
did EV Lac? -- HEAPOW
June 2, 2008: Building
a baby Earth to test its magnetic field -- NPR
June 1, 2008: A twisted solar
eruptive prominence -- APOD
June 1, 2008: How
to harvest solar power? Beam it down from space! -- CNN
MAY
May 31, 2008: A view to the
sunset -- APOD
May 29, 2008: Astronomers
map the metals in millions of Milky Way stars -- Sloan Digital Sky
Survey
May 29, 2008: Scientists
heat matter to hotter than surface of the sun -- Telegraph
May 29, 2008: New form of
artificial radioactivity -- AIP
May 29, 2008: A fog bow over Ocean Beach --
APOD
May 29, 2008: Warm
coronal loops offer clue to mysteriously hot solar atmosphere --
NASA GSFC
May 29, 2008: NASA
scientists' model reveals how plasma from superstorms affects
near-Earth space -- NASA GSFC
May 28, 2008: Plasma
twisters seen on the sun -- Nature
May 27, 2008: Hold the
old lace: Arsenic and iron material is a remarkable superconductor
-- NSF
May 27, 2008: Cartwheel
coronal mass ejection -- Science@NASA
May 22, 2008: Sun's
properties not 'fine-tuned' for life -- New Scientist
May 21, 2008: NASA's
Swift satellite catches first supernova in the act of exploding --
NASA GSFC
May 21, 2008: The many versus the one
-- Physical Review Focus
May 21, 2008: Looking for ET's
neutrino beam -- Physics World
May 20, 2008: LHCb measures its
first cosmic-ray muons -- CERN
May 20, 2008: The enigmatic
sun: A crucible for new physics -- CERN
May 20, 2008: Atomic
neutrality -- CERN
May 20, 2008: Hubble
Space Telescope survey finds missing matter, probes intergalactic
web -- University of Colorado
May 20, 2008: Willis Lamb:
1913-2008 -- Physics World
May 19, 2008: Small
star gets Swift reaction with unprecedented flare -- Univesity of
Maryland
May 18, 2008: On the origin of
gold -- APOD
May 16, 2008: Circles in the
sky -- APOD
May 15, 2008: Can
one 'pin down' electrons? -- Eurekalert
May 12, 2008: Video:
Lab probes universe's secrets -- National Geographic
May 9, 2008: Colliding
with nature's best-kept secrets -- CNN
May 9, 2008: Designer
isotopes push the frontier of science -- NSF
May 8, 2008: Iron
'snow' helps maintain Mercury's magnetic field -- Astronomy.com
May 8, 2008: Joint
ESA/NASA team wins international award -- ESA
May 7, 2008: XMM-Newton
discovers part of the missing matter in the universe -- Astronomy
& Astrophysics
May 6, 2008: Chasing
the green flash -- Astronomy.com
May 6, 2008: A
super solar flare -- Science@NASA
May 5, 2008: GRBs
-- HEAPOW
May 4, 2008: An Antarctic
total solar eclipse -- APOD
May 1, 2008: NASA
calls on APL to send a probe to the sun -- JHU/APL
May 1, 2008: The
heaviest element yet? -- Nature
APRIL
April 30, 2008: Stellar
ticking time bomb explodes on cue -- NASA GSFC
April 30, 2008: Team of
researchers explain how birds navigate -- ASU
April 30, 2008: 'Chemical
compass' created -- Nature
April 30, 2008: Plasma
physics: From black holes to radio reception -- Scientific American
April 30, 2008: 4D
ionosphere -- Science@NASA
April 29, 2008: High-flying
electrons may provide new test of quantum theory -- NIST
April 29, 2008: Is there a
hidden order to the northern lights? -- New Scientist
April 28, 2008: 'Broken
heart' image the last for NASA's long-lived Polar mission -- NASA
GSFC
April 28, 2008: Found
link? -- HEAPOW
April 27, 2008: The Galactic
Center Radio Arc -- APOD
April 24, 2008: Northern lights
glimmer with unexpected trait -- AGU
April 24, 2008: Secrets
of massive black hole unveiled: Workings of giant galactic particle
accelerators discovered -- Science Daily
April 24, 2008: Exotic
quantum state of matter discovered -- Science Daily
April 23, 2008: Radio telescope reveals
secrets of massive black hole -- NRAO
April 23, 2008: Black
hole plasma jet reveals twisted magnetic fields -- New Scientist
April 21, 2008: The
range of annihilation -- HEAPOW
April 21, 2008: Quarter
electrons may enable exotic quantum computer
-- Scientific American
April 18, 2008: Solar flares
set the sun quaking -- ESA
April 18, 2008: Design
begins on twin probes that will study the radiation belts --
JHU/APL
April 17, 2008: The
moon and the magnetotail -- Science@NASA
April 16, 2008: Reflections offer
new way to bend particles -- CERN
April 16, 2008: Particle physics
proves that arsenic didn't kill Napoleon -- CERN
April 16, 2008: Finding the Higgs
Boson -- AIP
April 16, 2008: Electric
solar wind sail could power future space travel in solar system --
Science Daily
April 15, 2008: Sky delights
over Sweden -- APOD
April 15, 2008: Space
radiation may cause prolonged cellular damage to astronauts --
Eurekalert
April 14, 2008: A new
nova in Cygnus -- Astronomy.com
April 14, 2008: Mission
to Mars -- GSI
April 13, 2008: Curious cometary
knots in the Helix Nebula -- APOD
April 12, 2008: Yuri's
planet -- APOD
April 10, 2008: Optical clocks get
better -- AIP
April 10, 2008: Moondust
in the wind -- Science@NASA
April 9, 2008: Higgs
boson: A ghost in the machine -- Time
April 9, 2008: Newly
discovered fundamental state of matter, a superinsulator, has been
created -- Science Daily
April 8, 2008: 'God
particle' expected to be found soon -- Time
April 8, 2008: 14-year-old
CEO makes chemistry a game with 'Elementeo' -- Eurekalert
April 8, 2008: New probe
measures magnetic fields inside solids -- Physics World
April 7, 2008: Hot,
bright, massive stars have complex mixing processes in their great
depths -- Science Daily
April 7, 2008: Periodic
Table: Nuclear scientists eye future landfall on a second 'Island of
Stability' -- Science Daily
April 5, 2008: Magnetic
substorms from ground and space -- Science Daily
April 4, 2008: Medical
x-ray technique unveils the sun's corona -- Science Daily
April 3, 2008: South of
Orion -- APOD
April 3, 2008: 'No sun
link' to climate change -- BBC News
April 3, 2008: Matter-antimatter
split hints at physics breakdown -- Scientific American
April 2, 2008: Hinode:
Source of the slow solar wind and superhot flares -- ESA
April 2, 2008: Bon
MOT: Innovative atom trap catches highly magnetic atoms --
Eurekalert
April 2, 2008: 'Focused'
solar explosions get hotter -- NASA GSFC
April 1, 2008: Compressed
stars: Physicists compress unstable nucleus of nickel 56 for first
time -- Science Daily
MARCH
March 31, 2008: Old solar
cycle returns -- ESA
March 31, 2008: Cycle
23 redux
-- HEAPOW
March 30, 2008: Weak lensing
distorts the universe -- APOD
March 28, 2008: Why matter
matters in the universe -- University of Melbourne
March 27, 2008: The N44
complex -- APOD
March 25, 2008: Atom cloaking
-- AIP
March 24, 2008: Physicists
show electrons can travel more than 100 times faster in graphene
-- University of Maryland
March 22, 2008: Cat's Eye Hubble
remix -- APOD
March 20, 2008: Sunset:
Planet Earth -- APOD
March 20, 2008: NASA
satellite detects naked-eye explosion halfway across universe --
NASA / Swift mission
March 20, 2008: Rare
cosmic rays are from far away -- Eurekalert
March 20, 2008: Science with
the solar space observatory Hinode -- Astronomy & Astrophysics
March 20, 2008: Heavyweight contender
-- Physical Review Focus
March 20, 2008: Spring
is aurora season -- Science@NASA
March 19, 2008: Cometary
x-ray emission: Using comets as natural solar wind probes -- ACE
News
March 19, 2008: Japanese
particle accelerator hints at 'new physics' -- New Scientist
March 18, 2008: Fly's
eye detector spies cosmic-ray cut-off -- Nature
March 18, 2008: STEREO: The
sun's corona unraveled in 3D -- Sky & Telescope
March 15, 2008: Crashed
probe yields sun secrets -- BBC
March 13, 2008: Vanguard
I celebrates 50 years in space -- Eurekalert
March 13, 2008: The
solar system's first breath -- Nature
March 13, 2008: Japanese
satellite first to use magnetic memory -- Scientific American
March 10, 2008: Physicist
wins by-election for US Congress -- Physics World
March 9, 2008: New
discovery at Jupiter could help protect Earth-orbit satellites --
Eurekalert
March 7, 2008: WMAP
reveals neutrinos, end of dark age, first second of universe --
NASA
March 6, 2008: Sun's
corona is both hot and kinky -- Eurekalert
March 6, 2008: Auroras
in broad daylight -- Science@NASA
March 6, 2008: Vela Supernova
Remnant -- APOD
March 6, 2008: Controlling
most atoms now possible -- Eurekalert
March 5, 2008: Spring is
aurora season -- Astronomy.com
March 5, 2008: Scientists
identify origin of hiss in upper atmosphere -- Eurekalert
March 4, 2008: GLAST
spacecraft arrives in Florida to prepare for launch -- NASA KSC
March 3, 2008: NASA's
SDO mission to improve predictions of violent space weather --
NASA GSFC
March 3, 2008: Particle
collider's last big piece set -- National Geographic
FEBRUARY
February 28, 2008: Magnetic
atoms of gold, silver and copper have been obtained -- Basque
Research
February 27, 2008: US
experiment takes the lead in the competitive race to find dark
matter -- Caltech
February 26, 2008: Earth
is doomed (in 5 billion years) -- Physics World
February 26, 2008: Sun-like
star flips its magnetic field like our sun: First observation --
Science Daily
February 25, 2008: Dawn of the
Large Hadron Collider -- APOD
February 25, 2008: Killer
electrons surf celestial tsunamis -- NASA GSFC
February 25, 2008:
-- HEAPOW
February 25, 2008: Electron
gets film debut in first-ever video of its kind -- Science Daily
February 22, 2008: International
solar mission to end following stellar performance -- NASA
February 20, 2008: Integral:
Stellar winds colliding at our cosmic doorstep -- ESA
February 19, 2008: High energy
electron holes reveal unseen rings -- ESA
February 17, 2008: Clinton,
Obama S&T advisers square off at AAAS -- AAAS
February 17, 2008: M1: The Crab
Nebula from Hubble -- APOD
February 16, 2008: Astrophysicist
Neil deGrasse Tyson receives the 2007 AAAS Public Understanding of
Science and Technology Award -- AAAS
February 15, 2008: NASA
sponsors studies of next generation astronomy missions -- NASA
February 13, 2008: SOHO data
used for real-time space radiation forecasting -- ESA
February 13, 2008: The American
Institute of Physics Science Writing Awards have been named -- AIP
February 13, 2008: Sun-like
star flips its magnetic field -- Astronomy.com
February 13, 2008: Predicting the
radiation risk to ESA's astronauts -- ESA
February 13, 2008: Theorists
weigh up new route to neutrino mass -- Physics World
February 8, 2008: New
AAAS-National School Boards Association training materials to help
bolster science education at the local level -- AAAS
February 8, 2008: NASA
calls for suggestions to rename future telescope mission -- NASA
GSFC
February 7, 2008: Particle
accelerator: Signals sent racing ahead at light speed to keep
particles colliding -- Science Daily
February 6, 2008: A sunspot in the
new solar cycle -- APOD
February 5, 2008: 50 years of Physical
Review Letters -- Physical Review Letters
February 1, 2008: The first
explorer -- APOD
February 1, 2008: Dark
fluid: Dark matter and dark energy may be two faces of the same
coin -- Science Daily
JANUARY
January 31, 2008: New
discovery on magnetic reconnection to impact future space missions
-- Science Daily
January 30, 2008: Mercury's
magnetosphere fends off the solar wind -- Eurekalert
January 30, 2008: NASA
astrophysicist wins Arctowski Medal -- NASA GSFC
January 30, 2008: Explorer
I resolution introduced to commemorate 50th anniversary of the birth
of the US space program -- US House of Representatives
January 30, 2008: Galaxy
distortions shed light on cosmic acceleration -- Physics World
January 29, 2008: Space
weather science rues cuts -- BBC
January 29, 2008: Nowhere
to hide: New ultra-powerful microscope probes atomic world --
Science Daily
January 28, 2008: A solar eclipse
painting from the 1700s -- APOD
January 27, 2008: Giant
particle accelerator discovered in the sky -- Science Daily
January 24, 2008: AAAS
joins call for presidential debate on science and innovation
issues -- AAAS
January 24, 2008: Do
cosmic rays cause lightning?
-- Scientific American
January 23, 2008: A new calculation
explains the mechanics behind carbon dating -- AIP
January 23, 2008: Landmarks: What makes the
stars shine? -- Physical Review Focus
January 22, 2008: Milky
Way's antimatter linked to exotic black holes -- New Scientist
January 22, 2008: Future
of top U.S. particle physics lab in jeopardy -- Scientific
American
January 22, 2008: CERN:
Celebrating the lowering of the final detector element for Large
Hadron Collider -- Science Daily
January 21, 2008: Ring
around the sun -- NASA HEAPOW
January 18, 2008: 'Invisible
Sky' presents NASA images in Braille -- NPR
January 18, 2008: Abundances
and energy spectra of CIR heavy ions during Solar Cycle 23 -- ACE
News
January 17, 2008: The
future of physics -- Scientific American
January 17, 2008: Large
Hadron Collider: The discovery machine -- Scientific American
January 17, 2008: The
coming revolutions in particle physics -- Scientific American
January 16, 2008: Author
Caroline Wagner urges more inclusive global science cooperation --
AAAS
January 16, 2008: Upgraded
neutrino detector could root out dark matter -- New Scientist
January 15, 2008: National
Science Board releases Science and Engineering Indicators 2008 --
NSF
January 14, 2008: Ulysses
spacecraft flies over sun's north pole -- NASA JPL
January 14, 2008: SOHO: The new
solar cycle starts with a 'bang' -- ESA
January 10, 2008: Active galaxy Centaurus A -- APOD
January 10, 2008: Centaurus
A exposed -- Astronomy.com
January 9, 2008: Integral
discovers the galaxy's antimatter cloud is lopsided -- ESA
January 9, 2008: Vast
cloud of antimatter traced to binary stars -- NASA GSFC
January 9, 2008: Japanese
particle physics in good health -- Physics World
January 8, 2008: Hubble
finds that "blue blobs" in space are orphaned clusters of stars --
HubbleSite
January 8, 2008: For
remote control cells, just add magnets -- Scientific American
January 7, 2008: 'Maverick'
sunspot heralds new solar cycle -- New Scientist
January 4, 2008: Scientific
balloons achieve Antarctic flight record -- NSF
January 2, 2008: White
dwarf pulses like a pulsar -- NASA GSFC
January 2, 2008: Biomedical
engineering study demonstrates the healing value of magnets --
University of Virginia
January 2, 2008: Third
instrument for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory arrives at
Goddard -- NASA GSFC
January 2, 2008: Large
Hadron Collider at CERN expected to go live summer of 2008 --
Science Daily
January 2, 2008: Hot
on the trail of cosmic rays -- Space.com
January 1, 2008: Rays from an
unexpected aurora -- APOD
January 1, 2008: Important
days in history of universe -- CNN
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