January 2012PHAT Andromeda Survey ReleasedJulianne Dalcanton
The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury releases a major resolved-star survey of M31 using ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared Hubble observations.
Historical records for United States of America in 2012, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury releases a major resolved-star survey of M31 using ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared Hubble observations.
Supports President Hadi's transitional government.
Maintains security and diplomatic cooperation during the political transition.
Releases Wrecking Ball, an album shaped by economic anger and social protest.
MESSENGER begins its first extended mission after completing the primary year of orbital observations.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame again as a member of Faces.
Mission controllers reduce MESSENGER's orbital period to about eight hours, increasing the number of close Mercury passes each day.
Awards Dylan the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Hubble measurements constrain M31's sideways motion against distant background galaxies, enabling a quantitative forecast of its future encounter with the Milky Way.
Pasachoff observes the final transit of Venus of the twenty-first century, an event not repeated until 2117.
A Hubble hazard survey discovers Pluto's fifth and smallest known moon, later named Styx.
USADA announces a lifetime ban from competition, applicable to all sports which follow the World Anti-Doping Agency code
Death of Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong.
Voyager 1 crosses the heliopause and becomes the first human-made object in interstellar space.
Addresses the Republican National Convention during Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
Captures video of a brief meteoroid impact flash in Jupiter's atmosphere.
Releases Tempest.
Flaugher leads the Dark Energy Camera project as DECam obtains official first-light images, preparing the primary instrument for the Dark Energy Survey.
Debates Paul Ryan during the 2012 campaign.
Is reelected vice president with Barack Obama.
MESSENGER neutron measurements provide compelling evidence that Mercury's permanently shadowed north-polar craters contain abundant water ice.
Disqualified from from competitive cycling for life, for doping offenses by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
Publication of "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk"
With collaborators, formulates the firewall paradox as a challenge to conventional assumptions about black hole horizons and quantum information.
With collaborators, formulates the firewall argument, sharpening the conflict among unitarity, effective field theory and a smooth black hole horizon.
Co-writes and stars in Frances Ha as a young dancer navigating friendship and work in New York.
Publication of "Gone Girl"
Stars in Lincoln. Stars in Hope Springs
MESSENGER records its one-hundred-thousandth image from Mercury orbit as global and targeted imaging continues.
MESSENGER imaging shows that radar-bright polar deposits coincide with permanently shadowed areas where surface ice can remain stable.
Lawrence reports that hydrogen-rich polar deposits measured by MESSENGER are consistent with thick accumulations of water ice.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental methods enabling measurement and manipulation of individual quantum systems.
Directs Death of a Salesman in Broadway
Returns as Nick Fury in The Avengers, bringing together several Marvel film characters.
Publication of "The Yellow Birds"
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play - Death of a Salesman
Acts in Trouble with the Curve, one of his rare starring roles for another director in later career.
Disqualified from from competitive cycling for life, for doping offenses by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
Anthony Summers is made a Fellow of the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin
USADA announces a lifetime ban from competition, applicable to all sports which follow the World Anti-Doping Agency code
Directs Zero Dark Thirty, dramatizing the long intelligence search for Osama bin Laden.
Stars as CIA analyst Maya in Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty.
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