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Rain Of Solar Particles Causes Visible Aurorae On Venus – Even Without A Magnetic Field
Those are caused by solar particles slamming into the oxygen molecules on Earth, and something similar is happening on Venus. However, so far, there have not been any reports of red aurorae ...
History-making NASA probe flies closer to the sun than ever before — and breaks speed record
The Parker Solar Probe passed within just 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface — seven times closer to the burning ball of ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Preps for Record-Breaking Christmas Eve Flyby
The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Flies Closer to Sun Than Any Human-Made Object Ever
NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history on Tuesday with a record-breaking flight around the sun, the space agency has ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its closest approach to the sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close encounter with sun
The probe accelerated to 430,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft has ever flown, traveling to within 3.8 million miles of the star’s surface.
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A rare Venus solar transit helps unravel exoplanet atmospheres
A rare chance To observe Venus as an exoplanet, the team analyzed a very rare set of data, collected on 5 and 6 June 2012, the last time in this century Venus crossed the disk of our sun—much in ...
NASA’s Solar Probe Will Make History on Christmas Eve by Zooming Closer to the Sun Than Ever
At 3.8 million miles from the Sun's surface, Parker Solar Probe will be the closest a human-made object's ever been to our ...