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$66M experiment to ‘dim the sun’ to combat global warming gets OK — but critics have called it ‘barking mad’
Sounds like a bright idea. Scientists have received approval to soon test whether “dimming” the light from the sun will ...
World’s Most Powerful Solar Telescope Captures the Sun’s Explosive Activity in Unmatched Detail
The world’s most advanced solar telescope just unlocked a new level of discovery with the first light from its Visible ...
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First Image From Upgraded Solar Telescope Shows Sun Like Never Before
In a nutshell The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope’s new Visible Tunable Filter (VTF) instrument has achieved “first light,” ...
Sun's explosions echo in Earth's skies: How the atmosphere synchronizes with solar flare pulsations
Earth's atmosphere is much more sensitive to ripples of radiation from the sun than scientists previously believed, new ...
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NASA's sun-studying PUNCH mission captures its 1st-light images. Everything looks great so far
The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...
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PUNCH sees first light, prepares to study how the Sun creates our space weather
NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission launched March 12, sending up a constellation of four ...
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Light As A Cosmic Time Machine by Andrew Fraknoi
PhotoPhoto of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha light. The giant planet Jupiter, whose large moons Galileo discovered with his "trouble-making" telescope, is more than 5 times farther from the Sun than ...
See an incredible view of the sun’s corona captured by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft
The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Solar Orbiter mission has obtained a stunning high-res image of the sun's upper atmosphere.
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NASA's PUNCH mission captures first images of sun's outer atmosphere
The PUNCH mission completed spacecraft commissioning this week, opening its instrument doors to capture “first light,” the mission’s first images of the sun’s outer atmosphere and the ...