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Tim Sweezy - Mon, May 22, 2023
The world's most powerful ground-based solar telescope captured new close-up images of the Sun that are scorching hot. The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope's images highlight an assortment of sunspots...
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Jeff Butts - Tue, Dec 14, 2021
In a first for humanity’s space race, a NASA probe has touched the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe flew through our sun's upper atmosphere, also known as the corona. Some might argue semantics, saying the probe didn’t actually “touch” the...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Nov 26, 2021
As the probe Solar Orbiter skims by Earth on its way toward the Sun, debris from the Russian anti-satellite missile test (ASAT) could endanger its mission.
On November 15th of this year, a Russian ASAT destroyed an out of service...
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