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In a Scientific First, Astronomers Capture a Complete View of Venus’s Orbital Dust Ring
A band of dust that follows Venus along its entire orbital path has finally been viewed in full, thanks to a series of fortuitous manoeuvres involving NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.
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Sweet View From Deep Space Shows Earth, Venus, and Mars in a Single Frame
Well, here’s something you don’t see every day.
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Huge Lava Lamp-Like Blobs Spotted In 40-Year-Old Observations Of The Sun
Scientists have found lava lamp-like blobs up to 500 times larger than the Earth in the solar wind, in data from a pair of spacecraft that launched in the 1970s.
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Watch NASA Launch Its Sun-Skimming Parker Solar Probe
The Parker Solar Probe blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday, setting itself on course to become both the fastest human craft ever launched (in the neighbourhood of 692,018km per hour) and the first to probe the outer corona of the sun.