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Clever Camera Trick Unlocks Hidden Secrets of Sun’s Atmosphere
Scientists behind a Sun-observing probe applied a simple hack to one of its cameras, allowing them to peer into rarely seen regions of the Sun’s atmosphere. Using Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), the team of scientists behind the mission was able to record part of the Sun’s atmosphere at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. The last-minute…
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The Sun’s Powerful 2021 Outburst Was Detected on Earth, Mars, and the Moon
A massive outburst from the Sun was felt across three worlds in a rare event that could help protect astronauts from harmful radiation during future missions. On October 28, 2021, a solar eruption spread across Earth, the Moon, and Mars simultaneously, even as Earth and Mars were around 150 million miles (250 million kilometres) apart…
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Gaze in Wonder at These Stunning Views of the Cosmos
The cosmos is a hostile but beautiful place; from Earth, its phenomena — from our Sun and the aurorae it generates to nebulae and distant galaxies — are worth capturing.
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New Image of the Sun Is Unlike Anything Seen Before
A mosaic image packed with 83 million pixels is providing an unprecedented view of the Sun and its tumultuous outer atmosphere.