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Press Releases from 2002
December 23, 2002:
Scientists Catch Their First Elusive "Dark" Gamma-ray Burst
December 13, 2002:
Scientists Use South Pole Telescope to Produce the Most Detailed Images of the Early Universe
December 11, 2002:
Chandra Reveals Pileup on Cosmic Speedway
November 25, 2002:
X-ray Glow from Clusters of Galaxies Confirms Evidence of Missing Matter
November 19, 2002:
Never Before Seen: Two Supermassive Black Holes in Same Galaxy
November 12, 2002:
Physicists Puzzle Over Unexpected Findings in 'Little' Big Bang
November 9, 2002:
New Evidence for Dark Energy in the Universe
November 7, 2002:
Black Hole at Milky Way's Center is on Starvation Diet: A Report from The Galactic Center Workshop 'The Central 300 Parsecs'
November 6, 2002:
Exotic Innards of a Neutron Star Revealed in a Series of Explosions
November 4, 2002:
Scientists Measure the Most Powerful Magnet Known
October 23, 2002:
Texas Astronomer Watches as Black Hole Eats a Star
October 23, 2002:
Gamma-Ray Telescope To Sleuth For Origins of Elements
October 22, 2002:
Dark Matter Reality Check: Chandra Casts Clouds on Alternative Theory
October 8, 2002:
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Astronomer for NASA-Funded Research
October 8, 2002:
Scientists Around the Globe Race to Observe Fading Gamma-Ray Burst
October 3, 2002:
Astronomers Put Quasars in their Place
October 3, 2002:
Chandra Discovers the History of Black Hole X-Ray Jets
September 19, 2002:
Space Movie Reveals Shocking Secrets of the Crab Pulsar
September 13, 2002:
Chandra Finds Surprising Black Hole Activity in Old Galaxies
September 12, 2002:
New Neutrino Experiment At Fermilab Goes Live
September 11, 2002:
ESA To Look For The Missing Link In Gravity
September 11, 2002:
Rare Class of Exotic Stars Revealed as Super-Magnets
August 29, 2002:
New South Pole Telescope to Help Explain Why Universe is Accelerating
August 28, 2002:
Biggest-Ever Gamma Ray Search Starts in Namibia
August 19, 2002:
Australia: Dark Matter Role Scrutinized
August 13, 2002:
Bulk Source of Universe's Gamma Rays Identified, Scientists Say
August 9, 2002:
Balloon Above Canada Searches For Antimatter And Other Cosmic Particles
August 7, 2002:
X-Ray Arcs Tell The Tale of Giant Eruption
August 1, 2002:
Scientists Detect "Smoking Gun" of Colliding Black Holes
July 31, 2002:
Chandra Discovers "Rivers of Gravity" That Define Cosmic Landscape
July 24, 2002:
Scientists Visualize Waves in Space Caused by Black-Hole Mergers
July 23, 2002:
Dwarf Galaxies Give Universe A Breath of Fresh Oxygen
July 8, 2002:
Astrophysicist Honored With Goddard's Highest Space Science Award
July 1, 2002:
High-Energy Activity Heats Up the Whirlpool
June 27, 2002:
Neither Rome Nor Universe Built In A Day
June 26, 2002:
Scientists Observe Light Fighting to Escape Black Hole's Pull
June 25, 2002:
Energetic Ring Shows Way to Discovery of Pulsar's "Bulls-Eye"
June 06, 2002:
Distant, Massive Black Hole Seen Feeding Its Jet, Spurts Like Geyser
June 04, 2002:
Carnegie Mellon Astronomers Squeeze Data to Reveal the Faintest Distant X-Ray Sources; Window to First Star Formation
May 23, 2002:
Youngest Radio Pulsar Revealed with the Green Bank Telescope
May 23, 2002:
A New Picture of the Early Universe
May 23, 2002:
Going, going, almost gone: Pulsar whittles away stellar companion to planet-size
May 20, 2002:
New Evidence for Dark Dwarf Galaxies Supports Dark Matter Theory
May 16, 2002:
Culprit Caught in Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery
May 12, 2002:
Canadian Astronomers Go Over To The "Dark" Side
April 23, 2002:
Astronomers Link X-Ray Flashes to Gamma-Ray Bursts
April 23, 2002:
Energy Disappears High in Atmosphere, Scientists Say
April 22, 2002:
Scientists Catch Speeding Neutron Star With "Radar Gun" Technique, Confirm Theory
April 22, 2002:
Vampire Pulsar Sucks Companion Star Down to Planet-Size
April 22, 2002:
Scientists Find "Local" Black Hole Pumps Energy As It Spins
April 22, 2002:
Retired Quasars Live On to Generate the Fastest, Most Energetic Cosmic Rays
April 15, 2002:
Youngest Radio Pulsar Revealed with Green Bank Telescope
April 12, 2002:
Flares Illuminate the Secret Life of a Quiescent Black Hole
April 11, 2002:
X-Rays Examine Colliding Galaxies
April 10, 2002:
Interstellar Searchlights Catch Star Factories in their Beams
April 10, 2002:
Astronomers Weigh Neutrinos with the Universe
April 10, 2002:
Rare Galaxies Shed Light on a Dark Universe
April 10, 2002:
Mapping the Cosmic Web of Dark Matter
April 10, 2002:
Cosmic X-Rays Reveal Evidence for New Form of Matter
April 9, 2002:
Music of the Black Holes: They All Play the Same Tune
April 4, 2002:
ESA's X-Ray Space Telescope Proves Supernova Can Cause Mysterious Gamma-Ray Bursts
April 4, 2002:
Astronomers Unravel Mystery of Gamma Ray Bursts
March 28, 2002:
Chandra Finds Well-Established Black Holes in Distant Quasars
March 28, 2002:
Chandra Findings on Most Ancient Quasars
March 21, 2002:
Science Close to Viewing the Beginning of Time, U.W. Cosmologist Says
March 15, 2002:
Astronomy Journalism Prize Awarded For Superman Article
March 13, 2002:
NASA Gamma-Ray Burst Satellite Team Assembles World's Largest Telescope Mask
March 11, 2002:
Age Discrepancy Throws Pulsar Theories into Turmoil
March 8, 2002:
Peter Meyer, Cosmic-ray Physicist, 1920-2002
March 6, 2002:
Galaxy's Light Pushes Back Dark Ages of the Universe
February 27, 2002:
Jupiter Hot Spot Makes Trouble For Theory
February 21, 2002:
MIT: New Theory On Gamma Ray Bursts
February 19, 2002:
Scientists Detect First Afterglow of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
February 9, 2002:
34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly/The Second World Space Congress
February 7, 2002:
Quasar Used to 'X-Ray' a Galaxy Also Produces Vast X-Ray Jet
February 7, 2002:
Chandra Scores a Double Bonus With a Distant Quasar
February 5, 2002:
HESSI Spacecraft Safely Reaches Orbit
January 23, 2002:
Chandra Telescope Designer Wins 2002 Rossi Prize
January 22, 2002:
NASA Balloon Makes Record-Breaking Flight
January 9, 2002:
Prime View of Neighbouring Galaxy Yields Pulsar Bonanza, Seven in One Blow
January 7, 2002:
Newly Discovered Subclass of "Local" Gamma Ray Bursts May Solve a Mystery or Two
January 7, 2002:
Chandra Places Further Limits on the Nature of Dark Matter
January 7, 2002:
"Big Glitcher" Pulsar Reveals Long-Hidden, Exotic Interior
January 3, 2002:
Explore the violent death of stars with the Chandra X-ray telescope... in lecture
January 3, 2002:
TIGER loose in Antarctica, Searching for Cosmic Ray Origin
January 2, 2002:
Helium-3 in Milky Way Reveals Abundance of Matter in Early Universe
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