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In the News – Year 2015

12.17.15 – NuSTAR's View of Galaxy 1068

12.17.15 – NuSTAR Finds Cosmic Clumpy Doughnut Around Black Hole

12.16.15 – El Niño has effects all the way to the edge of the atmosphere.

12.15.15 – NASA's Fermi Satellite Kicks Off a Blazar-detecting Bonanza

12.14.15 – Plunging into the Ionosphere: Satellite's Last Days Improve Orbital Decay Predictions

11.23.15 – NEOWISE Observes Carbon Gases in Comets

11.13.15 – NASA's Fermi Mission Finds Hints of Gamma-ray Cycle in an Active Galaxy

11.12.15 – NASA's Fermi Satellite Detects First Gamma-ray Pulsar in Another Galaxy

11.11.15 – Secondhand Spacecraft Has Firsthand Asteroid Experience

11.06.15 – NASA's Swift Spots its Thousandth Gamma-ray Burst

11.03.15 – NASA Observes Auroras Across Canada

11.03.15 – Whopping Galaxy Cluster Spotted with Help of NASA Telescopes

10.30.15 – Finding New Worlds with a Play of Light and Shadow

10.29.15 – Voyager 1 Helps Solve Interstellar Medium Mystery

10.27.15 – Black Hole Has Major Flare

10.26.15 – Suzaku Finds Common Chemical Makeup at Largest Cosmic Scales

10.23.15 – 20 Intriguing Exoplanets

10.21.15 – Destroyed Star Rains onto Black Hole, Winds Blow it Back

10.20.15 – IBEX Sheds New Light on Solar System Boundary

10.20.15 – Most Earth-Like Worlds Have yet to be Born, According to Theoretical Study

10.07.15 – NASA Scientist to Discuss “Scouting for Exoplanets with TESS” at Library of Congress Lecture

09.30.15 – Mechanism of Explosions and Plasma Jets Associated with Sunspot Formation Revealed

09.23.15 – NASA's BARREL Team Returns from Sweden

09.16.15 – Funky Light Signal From Colliding Black Holes Explained

09.02.15 – FUV Ships to Belgium for Alignment, Environmental Tests and Calibration in the Far Ultra Violet

08.25.15 – IRIS and Hinode: A Stellar Research Team

08.14.15 – NASA Scientists Help Understand Newly Discovered Planet

08.11.15 – BARREL Team Arrives in Sweden for Balloon Mini-Campaign

08.05.15 – Hidden in Plain Sight

08.03.15 – Tracking A Mysterious Group of Asteroid Outcasts

07.31.15 – Exoplanets 20/20: Looking Back to the Future

07.30.15 – NASA Selects Proposals to Study Neutron Stars, Black Holes and More

07.10.15 – NASA's Fermi Sees Record Flare from a Black Hole in a Distant Galaxy

07.09.15 – NASA's Swift Reveals a Black Hole Bull's-eye

07.08.15 – Searing Sun Seen in X-rays

07.08.15 – NASA Data Shows Surfer-shaped Waves in Near-Earth Space

07.06.15 – NuSTAR Stares Deep into Hidden Lairs of Black Holes

07.06.15 – Astronomers use cosmic gravity to create a ‘black-hole-scope’

07.02.15 – Astronomers Predict Fireworks from Rare Stellar Encounter in 2018

06.30.15 – NASA Missions Monitor a Waking Black Hole

06.26.15 – IRIS Celebrates Year Two With Ongoing Scientific Discoveries

06.25.15 – Can Planets Be Rejuvenated Around Dead Stars?

06.25.15 – Monster black hole wakes up after 26 years

06.23.15 – NASA Simulation Suggests Black Holes May Make Ideal Dark Matter Labs

06.17.15 – Moon Engulfed in Permanent, Lopsided, Dust Cloud

06.12.15 – NASA, University Researchers Discuss Search for Life in Solar System, Beyond

06.03.15 – Charting the Milky Way From the Inside Out

05.21.15 – NASA's WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe

05.20.15 – NASA Spacecraft Capture Rare, Early Moments of Baby Supernovae

05.12.15 – NASA's Multi-Purpose NICER/SEXTANT Mission on Track for 2016 Launch

05.07.15 – Star Explosion Is Lopsided, Finds NASA's NuSTAR

05.06.15 – IRIS Celebrates 10,000th Orbit

04.29.15 – Extra X-rays at the Hub of Our Milky Way Galaxy

04.29.15 – NASA's NuSTAR Captures Possible ‘Screams’ from Zombie Stars

04.28.15 – Strong Evidence For Coronal Heating Theory Presented at 2015 TESS Meeting

04.21.15 – NASA's NExSS Coalition to Lead Search for Life on Distant Worlds

04.16.15 – White Dwarf May Have Shredded Passing Planet

04.10.15 – Accelerating Universe: Not As Fast?

04.07.15 – The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water

04.02.15 – Suzaku Studies Supernova ‘Crime Scene,’ Shows a Single white Dwarf to Blame

03.26.15 – Astronomers Upgrade Their Cosmic Light Bulbs

03.26.15 – NASA Asteroid Hunter Spacecraft Data Available to Public

03.25.15 – Suzaku, Herschel Link a Black-hole ‘Wind’ to a Galactic Gush of Star-forming Gas

03.09.15 – INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity (AO-13)

03.03.15 – NASA-Funded Study Finds Two Solar Wind Jets in the Heliosphere

02.27.15 – Living on the Edge: Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center

02.19.15 – NASA, ESA Telescopes Give Shape to Furious Black Hole Winds

01.23.15 – INTEGRAL Manoeuvres for the Future

01.16.15 – NuSTAR Principal Investigator Receives Astrophysics Prize

01.15.15 – NEOWISE: A Yearlong Look at the Sky

01.14.15 – NEOWISE: A Yearlong Look at the Sky

01.08.15 – Will the Real Monster Black Hole Please Stand Up?

01.06.15 – Volunteer ‘Disk Detectives’ Top 1 Million Classifications of Possible Planetary Habitats

01.05.15 – Hubble Discovers That Milky Way Core Drives Wind at 2 Million Miles Per Hour

01.05.15 – NASA Observatories Take an Unprecedented Look into Superstar Eta Carinae