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Everything under the sun
A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...
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How Hot Is the Sun? Our Solar System's Fiery Star, Explained
The Sun is a gigantic dynamo powered by hydrogen ... Voyagers 1 and 2 are on a one-way trip, sent forth to study the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space.
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Million-mile-long solar whirlwind could help solve sun's greatest mysteries (video)
A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...
Stellar Time Machine: Rare Particle Decay Sheds Light on the Sun’s Mysterious Origins
New experiments on thallium decay have helped determine the Sun formed over 10–20 million years, improving stellar ...
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2 newly found exoplanets reignite an outstanding question about our solar system
Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...
Solar System Temperatures: Know the average temperatures of all the planets in our solar system
Planets' temperatures are largely influenced by their structural characteristics and proximity to the Sun, however, Venus ...
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NASA's daredevil solar spacecraft survives 2nd close flyby of our sun
"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...
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Our solar system is not as unusual as we thought
They also orbit near their stars, in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system ...
Partial Eclipse Captivates Much of the Northern Hemisphere
The moon slipped between the Earth and the sun on Saturday, casting a shadow on our planet in parts of the United States, ...