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Parker Solar Probe Sails Directly Through Sun’s Intense Plasma Burst
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew through an ejection of coronal material as it passed by the Sun in September 2022, giving researchers new data to understand how the Sun’s superheated plasma interacts with the surrounding interplanetary dust. The coronal mass ejection (CME) flown through by the probe is one of the most powerful ever recorded, according…
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Physicists Get a Unique View of a Destroyed Comet
When C/2019 Y4 ATLAS fragmented in April 2020, many were dismayed at the loss of what would’ve been the brightest comet since the 1997 passing of Hale-Bopp. But NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter just flew near what’s left of ATLAS, giving scientists a rare look at what happens to a comet’s tail…