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Colossal Eruption Carves ‘Canyon of Fire’ Onto the Sun’s Surface
The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere.
NASA Just Flew Through the Sun’s Atmosphere – And What It Saw Is Jaw-Dropping
By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...
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NASA Mission: How Solar Wind Creates Northern Lights
Discover NASA's groundbreaking TRACERS mission launching this July—twin satellites designed to study Earth's magnetic shield ...
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NASA Confirms Invisible Magnetic Wall Superheating the Sun’s Atmosphere From Millions of Miles Away
In a new paper published in Physical Review X, researchers present compelling evidence for a “helicity barrier”—a previously ...
Roman Space Telescope team installs observatory's solar panels
On June 14 and 16, technicians installed solar panels onto NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, one of the final steps ...
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Birth of a solar system caught ‘on camera’ for first time
Astronomers have for the first time spotted a solar system beyond our own in its very earliest stages of formation. The ...
For the first time, astronomers spot the beginning of a solar system
This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. These ...