solar telescopes
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NASA’s Parker Probe Shatters Records During Latest Solar Swoop
NASA’s groundbreaking Parker Solar Probe continues to set new milestones, diving continuously deeper towards the Sun, and offering insights into the star’s enigmatic atmosphere and how it affects space weather. On Wednesday, September 27, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe smashed its own record by approaching the Sun at a mere distance of 4.51 million miles (7.26…
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NASA Spacecraft Will Reunite With Earth After 17 Years of Studying the Sun
For the past 17 years, a lone spacecraft has been following Earth’s tracks in its orbit around the Sun and capturing unprecedented views of our host star. Now, STEREO-A has finally caught up with its home planet, lapping us in our cosmic trail and meeting the Earth for a brief rendezvous. On Saturday, NASA’s STEREO-A…
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Unprecedented Image Captures Freakishly Large Solar Eruption
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft had a front-row view this week of the Sun giving out an unusually large belch, resulting in a one-of-a-kind image.
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Sun-Orbiting Spacecraft Takes Fascinating Images of a Coronal Mass Ejection
Coronal mass ejections are regular space weather events involving huge, fast-moving expulsions of plasma from the Sun’s surface. They’re routinely observed by a bevy of telescopes, and recently, Solar Orbiter has imaged its first stellar burps.