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In the News – Year 2016

12.30.16 – Space Timekeeping: NASA's SDO Adds Leap Second to Master Clock

12.14.16 – Preparing for the August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

11.15.16 – Remembering the Historic Solar Storms of 2003

11.15.16 – When Planets Transit

11.03.16 – NASA's SDO Performs Calibration Maneuvers

10.31.16 – NASA's SDO Catches a Lunar Transit

10.20.16 – Tracking Waves from Sunspots Gives New Solar Insight

10.19.16 – NASA, Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Host Discussion on Solar Hazards in Exploration

10.05.16 – NASA's SDO Watches Magnetic Arches Tower Over Sun's Surface

09.28.16 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot Electron Rainfall in Atmosphere

09.22.16 – NASA Scientist to Discuss “A Space Weather Report” at Library of Congress Lecture

09.02.16 – NASA's SDO Witnesses a Double Eclipse

08.17.16 – NASA-Funded Balloon Mission Begins Fourth Campaign

08.15.16 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Catch Rare Glimpse of Supercharged Radiation Belt

08.10.16 – SDO Status Update

08.05.16 – IRIS Spots Plasma Rain on Sun's Surface

07.29.16 – NASA's Solar Probe Plus Mission Moves One Step Closer to Launch

07.27.16 – SDO Watches Twisting Solar Material Over the Sun's Surface

07.23.16 – SDO Sees Trio of Mid-Level Flares

07.22.16 – NASA's SDO Watches Bursts of Solar Material

07.15.16 – NASA's SDO Takes a Spin

07.13.16 – Slow appearance of sunspots challenges theory

06.27.16 – SDO Watches Twisting Solar Material Over the Sun's Surface

05.26.16 – NASA's SDO Peers Into Huge Coronal Hole

05.23.16 – NASA: Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth

05.19.16 – NASA Mini-Balloon Mission Maps Migratory Magnetic Boundary

05.19.16 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Reveal Long-term Behavior of Earth's Ring Current

05.18.16 – Sounding Rocket EVE Supporting Tune-up of SDO EVE Instrument

05.10.16 – Mercury Transit (Composite Image)

05.10.16 – Swept Up in the Solar Wind

05.03.16 – Satellites to See Mercury Enter Spotlight on May 9

05.03.16 – NASA to Provide Coverage of May 9 Mercury Transit of the Sun

05.03.16 – NASA's SDO Watches Glowing Solar Material Arch Up and Out

04.26.16 – SDO Captures Stunning View of April 17 Solar Flare

04.19.16 – Seeing Double: NASA Missions Measure Solar Flare from 2 Spots in Space

04.18.16 – NASA's SDO Captures Images of a Mid-Level Solar Flare

04.15.16 – Towering Magnetic Arches Seen by NASA's SDO

04.08.16 – NASA's SDO Spies an Elongated Coronal Hole

03.22.16 – NASA's SDO Sees Circular Outburst

03.15.16 – Picturing the Sun's Magnetic Field

03.03.16 – A Moment in the Sun's Atmosphere: NASA's Science During the March 2016 Total Solar Eclipse

02.29.16 – Eclipse Season Begins for NASA's SDO

02.17.16 – NASA's SDO Sees Unraveling Solar Prominence

02.12.16 – NASA Releases March 8 Total Solar Eclipse Visualizations

01.29.16 – NASA: Understanding the Magnetic Sun

01.21.16 – NASA's SDO Sees Tangled Connections

01.19.16 – NASA's Van Allen Probes Revolutionize View of Radiation Belts

01.15.16 – NASA's SDO Captures Cascading Magnetic Arches