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The SNIFS sounding rocket launched on 18 July is an attempt to study the Sun's chromosphere, where the temperature, pressure ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be ...
A smaller 60-foot-tall NASA spacecraft known as a sounding rocket launched from New Mexico to study the sun's mysterious chromosphere and its corona.
NASA's TRACERS mission, with its twin satellites launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, aims to unravel the mysteries of magnetic ...
Another NASA-funded tech demo named Athena EPIC was also aboard the Falcon 9 rocket. Led by NASA's Langley Research Center, ...
In the photograph of NGC 1068, a spiral galaxy with a black hole at the center, Chandra’s X-rays are responsible for the blue ...
The Parker Solar Probe is revealing a side of the Sun humanity had never seen—offering new hope for protecting astronauts and ...
Without too much interference from moonlight — the waxing moon will be only about a quarter full — the meteors should appear ...
Our Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar ...
For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...
Students in AST 250/251 build sophisticated space physics instruments of their own design  — suiting in bunny suits, booties, ...
A jaw-dropping eruption just tore through the Sun—forming a 250,000-mile-long "canyon of fire" with plasma walls taller than ...