1) SUNRISE II–Prelaunch Update

04 June 2013: Three HAO employees (Greg Card, Michael Knoelker and Alice Lecinski) have returned to Kiruna with the gondola for a second science flight of Sunrise.
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2) HAO Astrophysicist, Philip Judge Captures Operatic Dreams

16 May 2013: Philip Judge, 53, an astrophysicist with the HAO/NCAR, performed as the Duke of Verona in the opera Romeo and Juliet at the Willson Auditorium in Bozeman, Montana.
Photo courtesy Bozeman Daily Chronicle/Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez
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3) Magnetotail Science and Aurora Viewing

13 May 2013: HAO Scientist Michael Wiltberger attended the AGU Chapman Conference on Fundamental Properties and Processes of Magnetotails in Reykjavik, Iceland, March 10-15, 2013.
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4) NASA Selects GOLD and ICON Missions

18 April 2013: NASA has selected two new satellite missions to be built as part of the Heliophysics Explorer Program. The projects will provide space observations to study Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere, and will launch in 2017.
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5) Waves Might Heat Solar Atmosphere

3 July 2012: A team of astronomers, including Scott McIntosh, discovered Alfvénic waves permeate both the corona and the transition zone between the corona and the chromosphere. (Photo courtesy NASA.)
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