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In the News – Year 2011

12.19.11 – Science Nugget: Using Many Instruments to Track a Comet

12.16.11 – Comet Lovejoy Plunges into the Sun and Survives

12.14.11 – Curiosity and the Solar Storm

12.06.11 – Solar Storms Could ‘Sandblast’ the Moon

12.06.11 – Space Weather Workshop

11.10.11 – 2012: Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility

11.04.11 – A 360 Degree View of an X-class Flare and A CME

10.27.11 – Solar Cycle Primer

10.25.11 – Beautiful Red Aurora

10.06.11 – ESA To Collaborate with NASA on Solar Science Mission

10.06.11 – NASA Developing Instruments For New Solar Orbiter Mission

10.04.11 – Incoming Comet; Outgoing CME

10.04.11 – Nikolaos Paschalidis: Miniaturized Details and the Big Picture

09.27.11 – Geomagnetic Storm Subsiding

09.22.11 – Solar Activity Can Affect Re-Entry of UARS Satellite

09.22.11 – A Solar Flare and a CME

09.12.11 – Solar Activity Subsiding - Auroras Ablaze

09.08.11 – Sunspot 1283 Is Bristling With Flares-UPDATED

09.07.11 – X2.1 Solar Flare and CME

09.07.11 – SDO Spots a Late Phase in Solar Flares

09.06.11 – M5.3 Solar Flare Eruption-CME

08.24.11 – Sunspot Breakthrough

08.09.11 – Sun Unleashes X6.9 Class Flare

08.08.11 – Sun Packs a Double Punch-UPDATED

08.01.11 – Friday Night M9.3 Light

07.27.11 – SDO Spots Extra Energy in the Sun's Corona

07.11.11 – Dark Fireworks on the Sun

07.07.11 – First-Ever View of a Sungrazer Comet In Front of the Sun

06.24.11 – Solstice Flare and CME - UPDATE

06.10.11 – Having a Solar Blast - UPDATE

06.07.11 – Surfing on the Sun, as seen by SDO

06.01.11 – Memorial Weekend Light Show

04.30.11 – Geomagnetic Storm Light Show at Both Poles

04.21.11 – SDO First Light Anniversary Contest

04.14.11 – The Watched Pot and Fast CMEs

04.14.11 – RBSP - Mission Status

03.16.11 – Fortuitous Timing for NASA's New Space Weather App

03.09.11 – Celebrating 400 Years of Sunspot Observations

03.02.11 – Researchers Crack the Mystery of the Spotless Sun

02.24.11 – Monster Prominence Erupts from the Sun

02.22.11 – Launching Balloons in Antarctica

02.11.11 – SDO Sundog Mystery

02.11.11 – SDO Celebrates One Year Anniversary

01.11.11 – Holes in the Sun's Corona

01.06.11 – Hotspots Help Explain Coronal Heating Mystery