solarphenomena
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Solves a Longtime Mystery About the Sun
Although the Sun fuels life on our planet, Earth’s host star is not to be messed with. The inflamed ball of hot gas can often times get violent, flinging streams of plasma in our direction in the form of solar wind. By the time this solar wind reaches us, it has already travelled 93 million…
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The Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Just Got Hit by a Gigantic Outburst From the Sun
The spacecraft survived the encounter and even managed to capture value data about our host star.