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On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made the closest flyby of the sun ever made by a spacecraft in Dec. 25. See the views it captured ...
Scientists are using the images and data collected by the probe to understand the sun’s impact on Earth and the solar system.
Cameras on the ground need strong solar filters to photograph things like an eclipse, yet NASA has made a camera that was ...
Experts identify a boundary-like structure in the corona, alongside other revelations in these new images released from Parker Solar Probe.
Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail — the closest-ever images of our Sun are a gold mine ...
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The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere.
A watchdog looking at the National Institute of Health obtained documents that showed the agency was going back on its word and funding cocaine studies on beagles.
Scientists have watched a solar system being born for the first ever time. Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the ...
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Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla shares an emotional reunion with his family in Houston after returning from his historic 18-day mission aboard the ISS.
Astrophotographers have snapped stunning shots of a giant shapeshifting solar prominence, dubbed "The Beast," which appeared over the sun's northeastern limb on July 12 and rained impossibly fast fire ...