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Solar Orbiter captures first-ever images of Sun’s poles — Reveals magnetic chaos
For the first time, ESA’s Solar Orbiter has captured direct images of the Sun’s north and south poles, offering crucial ...
Solar Orbiter Captures First Clear Views of Sun’s South Pole—and It’s a Hot Mess
A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.
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James Webb Space Telescope sees 1st exoplanet raining sand alongside 'sandcastle' partner world
"By studying these planets, we can better understand how planets form in general, a bit like peering into the past of our ...
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Astronomers just found a giant planet that shouldn’t exist
Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The planet, TOI-6894b, is about the size of Saturn but orbits a star just a ...
A Planetarium Show Sparked Astronomy’s New Spiral Oort Cloud Theory
A team of scientists accidentally visualized a hidden spiral in the Oort Cloud, and it might change everything we know about ...
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Humanity takes its 1st look at the sun's poles: 'This is just the first step of Solar Orbiter's stairway to heaven' (images)
"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...
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First ever look at the Sun’s south pole
The European Space Agency-led spacecraft Solar Orbiter, which carries instruments designed and built at UCL, has captured the ...
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ESA’s Solar Orbiter reveals the Sun’s poles for the first time
ESA has just released the first-ever images taken of the Sun's south pole, as seen this year by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.
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Behold the First Images of the Sun’s South Pole
We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...
NASA's Webb telescope glimpses coldest exoplanet yet found: What to know about gas giant
An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...
New Scientist5h
These images are the first time we have seen the sun's south pole
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...
See our Sun like NEVER before: European Space Agency unveils the first ever photo of our home star's south pole - and says the best snaps are yet to come
A satellite launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) has captured the first ever images of the sun's south pole.