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NASA's Parker Solar Probe recently passed through one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever recorded. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe

Parker floated through a strong coronal mass ejection that "sucked" interplanetary dust

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"These interactions between the Sun's coronal mass ejections and interplanetary dust were theorized twenty years ago, but were not observed until the Parker Solar Probe saw that the coronal ejection acts like a vacuum cleaner, removing the dust from its orbit."
The 2017 eclipse as photographed by the Chasing the Eclipse I project. Credit: SwRI/NASA/Daniel B. Seaton

NASA's science in the shadows: five fascinating experiments for the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024

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Using the high-altitude research plane WB-57, in one of the projects they will photograph the eclipse from a height of 15 km from the ground. The team hopes that taking the pictures above most of the atmosphere of the country will make it possible to see new details of structures in the middle and lower corona
Image of the "smiling" Sun taken by NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory on October 26, 2022. Credit: NASA/SDO

NASA's SDO (Solar Dynamic Observatory) spacecraft photographed the sun "smiling"

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These dark spots on the Sun, visible in ultraviolet light, are called coronal holes and are areas where fast solar wind bursts out into space. By chance, they managed to take a photo that looked like the sun was smiling.
An artist's impression of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the critical Alfvén surface, which marks the end of the Sun's atmosphere and the beginning of the solar wind. The entry of the Parker Solar Probe into this region in April 2021 means that the spacecraft "touched the sun" for the first time. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ben Smith

The Parker Solar Probe flies through the Sun's outer atmosphere for the first time

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It is very difficult to squeeze the sun but the reward for the risk is a lot of knowledge about the planet that affects our lives
Comet Atlas passes near the Sun. Credit: NASA/NRL/STEREO/Karl Battams

Comet Atlas was captured in a video crossing the field of view of one spacecraft and a second spacecraft crossed its tail

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The Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Imaging - European Space Agency

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft was launched to circle the Sun to observe the poles

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Solar Spacecraft Parker. Image: NASA

NASA launched Parker, the spacecraft that will come closest to the Sun

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Parker Solar Probe simulation. Source: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Touch the sun: NASA will launch a spacecraft closer than ever to the sun

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A giant solar flare recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Source: NASA/SDO/AIA/GoddarSpace Flight Center.

Detectives following the sun

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solohi - the American Navy's solar system whose sensors are made by the Israeli Towerjaz. Photo: NASA

Tower-Jazz and SRI Deliver First Sensors to Solar System Heliosphere Exploration Program

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The Pegasus XL rocket is launched from an airplane with the Iris spacecraft on it, June 29, 2013. Photo: NASA

NASA launched the Iris spacecraft from an airplane to explore the Sun

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Venus approaches the Sun before transit on June 6, 2012. Photo: NASA's SOHO spacecraft

Venus approaches the Sun for the transit in the morning

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A hole in the sun's corona, as photographed yesterday (27/11/2011) by the SDO spacecraft. NASA monitors space 'weather' events

"Prediction of solar storms and their impact on Earth is improving: a two-day warning instead of an hour, but there is still room for improvement in the models"

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This is what Dr. Ofer Cohen of the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory says, during the "Solar Cycle No. 24 and its Impact on Ground and Space Infrastructures" seminar that took place yesterday at the Open University
The last image of the Sun before stereo spacecraft aligned themselves in opposite directions and were able to see the entire Sun from a completely different angle than seen on Earth. The gap is seen as a line cutting through the Sun in this image from February 2, 2011. The gap closed on February 6

The sun - from today in XNUMXD photography courtesy of Stereo spacecraft

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One of the comets discovered by SOHO is Comet 96P Machholz. It orbits the sun once every six years and Soho saw it three times

Soho celebrates 15 years in space and discovers the Comet of the Millennium

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The Sun's plasma conveyor belt. Image: Science@NASA.

The lengthening of the solar cycle was due to changes in the Sun's plasma conveyor belt

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The effect of solar storms on Earth. Image: NASA

NOAA has assumed responsibility for solar storm warnings

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Solar flare, April 12-13, 2010, photographed by NASA's Stereo spacecraft

The sun came back into action and in a big way - Stereo filmed a huge solar flare

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Artist's perception - the sun as a changing star that seems very fixed to us

A new spacecraft to be launched this week will transmit high-quality video photographs of the Sun

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Solar winds are caused by its magnetic field and that of the planets

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After 18 and a half years, the instruments of the Ulysses spacecraft will be turned off

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Has the mystery of the missing sunspots been solved?

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The strange flames of the sun

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Will there be evidence of a planet that orbited the sun in an orbit not far from that of the earth?

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The fear: deadly asteroids stuck in Earth's Lagrange points

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