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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) — ...
Astronomy on MSN5h
PUNCH sees first light, prepares to study how the Sun creates our space weather
The constellation of four satellites can take both narrow- and wide-field images of the Sun to study its corona and solar ...
7 Fascinating Facts About the Sun
He wasn't wrong—the sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. But what is that giant ball of fire in the sky? How ...
NASA's PUNCH mission captures first images of sun's outer atmosphere
NASA's PUNCH mission has captured its first images of the sun's outer atmosphere, marking a key milestone in understanding ...
Luke Skywalker's planet orbited two stars. How about brown dwarfs instead?
In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...
Astrophysicists Discover That Millions of Interstellar Objects Could Be Hiding in Our Solar System
A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...
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Scientists finally unlock the secret to why carbon-rich asteroids don’t hit earth
The researchers reached the conclusion by studying 7,982 meteoroid trajectories and 540 potential meteorite falls.