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Posted November 19, 1998:

• Earth To Voyager 2 -- Ground Controllers Lose, Then Regain Contact With Space Probe On Solar System's Outer Fringes

Posted November 17, 1998:

• Brigham Young Students And NASA Engineers Work Together To Test Student-Developed Telescope
• Spectrometer Measures Auroras' Impact On Ionosphere

Posted November 13, 1998:

• Astrophysicists Use Virtual Reality To Chase Earth's Tail

Posted November 12, 1998:

• ACE Spacecraft Braces For Fierce Meteor Storm

Posted November 6, 1998:

• The Hitchhiker In Discovery's Baggage Compartment -- USC Experiment Studies Ultraviolet Solar Radiation

Posted November 4, 1998:

• Spectrometer Measures Auroras' Impact On Ionosphere

Posted October 31, 1998:

• Swarthmore Professor, Students Recreating Conditions On Sun Surface: First-Of-Its Kind Research Providing Up-Close Look At Solar Flares And Corona

Posted October 26, 1998:

• Deep Space 1 -- NASA's Ion-Engine Spacecraft -- Successfully Launched

Posted October 23, 1998:

• University Of Arizona Scientists Are First To Discover Debris Disk Around Star Orbited By Planet

Posted October 21, 1998:

• Deep Space 1 -- Futuristic Space Probe Powered By A Solar-Electric Propulsion System

Posted October 20, 1998:

• Sunspot Cycle Closely Following Prediction -- Maximum Expected In The Year 2000

Posted October 16, 1998:

• SOHO Is Nearly Back In Business

Posted October 14, 1998:

• Hubble Provides A Moving Look At Neptune's Stormy Disposition

Posted October 13, 1998:

• Mars Global Surveyor Captures Detailed Views Of Olympus Mons, Kasei Vallis River Channel

Posted October 6, 1998:

• Meteor Threat To Spacecraft Elevated But Not Serious, NASA And Defense Experts Say

Posted September 30, 1998:

• Tremendous Gamma-Ray Flare Blasts Earth

Posted September 29, 1998:

• Three Spacecraft Reveal Unexplained Motion

Posted September 28, 1998:

• Solar Flare Causes Intense Space Storm

Posted September 25, 1998:

• Two More Planets Discovered Beyond Our Solar System

Posted September 19, 1998:

• Engineers Successfully Regain Control Of SOHO Spacecraft

Posted September 18, 1998:

• New Research Places Mars Bulk Composition In Question

Posted September 17, 1998:

• 2001 Space Mission: Into The Heart Of The Van Allen Belts

Posted September 15, 1998:

• NASA Selects First University-Class Explorers

Posted August 17, 1998:

• Cosmic Near Misses Hit The Scientific Bullseye

Posted August 4, 1998:

• Cometary Impact With Earth Unlikely In The Next 500,000 Years

Posted July 30, 1998:

• University Of Maryland Students Are In Satellite 'Drivers Seat'

Posted July 29, 1998:

• Radio Astronomers Find A Lost Satellite -- The Detection Of SOHO Raises Hopes For Its Recovery

Posted July 27, 1998:

• Scientists Begin To Tease Out A Hidden Star's Secrets

Posted July 7, 1998:

• Scientists Find Solar System's Hottest Surfaces On Jupiter's Moon Io

Posted July 6, 1998:

• Astronomers Find New Class Of Asteroid

Posted July 2, 1998:

• Launch Date Nears For UW Mission To Collect Samples Of Comet Dust

Posted June 29, 1998:

• Astronomer Finds New Planet Near Our Solar System

Posted June 26, 1998:

• New Discovery Beneath Antarctic Ice Means Life On Other Planets Plausible

Posted June 22, 1998:

• Hubble Uncovers Dust Disk Around A Massive Black Hole

Posted June 16, 1998:

• Montana And European Scientists Take Sun's Temperature
• Brightest Object In Universe Observed By University Of Washington Astronomer

Posted June 9, 1998:

• Giant SHRIMP Poised To Target Big Questions With Tiny Ion Beam

Posted June 5, 1998:

• Twin Comets Race To Death By Fire

Posted June 4, 1998:

• Tiniest Of Space Bodies To Get Close Examination

Posted June 2, 1998:

• Cosmic Cloud Could Burst Earth's 'Breathing Bubble,' New Computer Simulation Shows

Posted May 28, 1998:

• Solar Flare Leaves Sun Quaking

Posted April 30, 1998:

• Surprises From SOHO Include Tornadoes On The Sun

Posted April 27, 1998:

• Professor Plots Course For Sun-Studying Spacecraft

Posted April 20, 1998:

• Ulysses Completes First Full Orbit Around The Sun

Posted April 17, 1998:

• SOLAR Project To Help Science Teachers, Students SOAR To New Astronomical Heights

Posted April 15, 1998:

• New Sunspot Cycle To Be Bigger Than Average, NASA Scientists Predict

Posted April 10, 1998:

• Astronomers Discover A Huge Chemical "Factory" In Interstellar Space, Suggesting Origin Of Water In Solar System

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