Parker Solar Probe

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Why the NASA Probe Inside the Sun’s Atmosphere Hasn’t Melted

Nishant Tiwari 30/12/2021

The answer lies partly in the difference between temperature...

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NASA Astronomers Find Earth-Sized Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star

Ravi Kumar Kopparapu 14/01/2020

The climates of planets around small and dim stars...

Kiran Bedi, om chanting, NASA, IISER Kolkata, TIFR Mumbai, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Centre of Excellence in Space Sciences India, Dopplergram, Global Oscillation Network Group, helioseismology, solar astrophysics, Parker solar probe, pseudoscience, Bharatiya Janata Party, convection zone, plasma,

Forget Kiran Bedi’s Om Video – This Is How Scientists Study the Sun’s Sound

The Wire Staff 05/01/2020

While other commentators took Bedi’s claim to the cleaners,...

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Why is The Sun’s Atmosphere Hotter Than Its Surface? We’re Starting to Find Out

Daniel Verscharen 08/12/2019

The Parker Solar Probe makes it closest-ever approach to...

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NASA Solar Probe Begins Second Orbit of Sun

The spacecraft has been delivering data from its instruments to Earth...

Parker solar probe, BepiColombo, gravity assist, gravitational flyby, NASA MESSENGER, Cassini probe, Voyager 1, interstellar medium, Voyager 2, orbital inclination, ESA Rosetta,

The Simple Physics Trick That’s Allowed Us to Venture Deeper Into Space

Jatan Mehta 30/11/2018

The gravity assist is a versatile instrument in the...

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA Launches World’s First Mission to ‘Touch’ the Sun

NASA successfully launched the Parker Solar Probe, a robotic spacecraft...