A NASA spacecraft has officially "touched" the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona.
Space Exploration
Dec 19, 2021
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For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere—the corona—and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.
Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2021
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You probably remember your grade school science teachers explaining that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. That's a fundamental property of the universe.
Environment
Aug 4, 2021
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Flares from the sun are some of the nastiest things in the solar system. When the sun flares, it belches out intense X-ray radiation (and sometimes even worse). Predicting solar flares is a tricky job, and a new research ...
Astronomy
Oct 14, 2020
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An international team of astrophysicists has found distinctive signatures of black hole event horizons, unmistakably separating them from neutron stars, which are objects comparable to black holes in mass and size but confined ...
Astronomy
Sep 21, 2020
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In February 2020, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory—SDO—is celebrating its 10th year in space. Over the past decade the spacecraft has kept a constant eye on the sun, studying how the sun creates solar activity and drives ...
Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2020
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This image shows a snippet of the Sun up close, revealing a golden surface marked by a number of dark, blotchy sunspots, curving filaments, and lighter patches known as 'plages' – brighter regions often found near sunspots. ...
Space Exploration
Aug 5, 2019
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Scientists can now gain a better understanding of space weather – the dreaded solar winds and flares – thanks to the development of high spatial resolution observation and computing methods. For the first time, it will ...
Space Exploration
Mar 2, 2015
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An active region of the sun just rotating into the view of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory gives a profile view of coronal loops over about a two-day period, from Feb. 8-10, 2014.
Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2014
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Two solar eruptions expand side-by-side into space in this movie, playing out in front of the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO, on 1–2 July 2013.
Space Exploration
Jul 23, 2013
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