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Voyager hits a 50,000K wall at the solar system’s edge that shouldn’t exist

At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to the galaxy, a decades‑old spacecraft has stumbled into a ...
Inverse

NASA Solar Orbiter: 10 science instruments to transform our understanding of the Sun

NASA's Solar Orbiter is set to launch into space on Sunday, February 9 at 11:03 p.m Eastern. And it packs ten powerful scientific instruments on board that will shed unprecedented light on our Sun.
SpaceNews

Lockheed Martin-Built Instruments Launched on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

Two state-of-the art solar instruments built at the Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory of the Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto, were launched this morning at ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Here comes the sun: LANL designed instruments aboard NASA craft to study heliosphere, solar wind

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Call it sun block. Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed two tools to learn more about the ...
ExtremeTech

How Hot Is the Sun? Our Solar System's Fiery Star, Explained

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; Data processing: E. Kraaikamp (ROB) As tempting as it is to cite one, no single number can describe the temperature of the whole Sun. Its layers are at ...