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Video shows plasma swirling on sun in “exquisite detail”

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Dr. Sarah Adams

A spacecraft from the European Space Agency has captured new video of the sun’s surface, showing plasma swirling on the star’s “otherworldly” ...

Spacecraft captures absolutely incredible video of plasma swirling on the sun

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Underneath the arch of a huge coronal loop, a wealth of exotic solar phenomena active in the transition zone between the sun’s ...

World’s Most Precise Satellite Navigation System Expands

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The European Galileo navigation system has two more satellites in orbit following their launch in the early morning of Sunday, April 28. ...

Solar Orbiter Captures the Sun’s Fluffy Corona in Stunning Detail [Video]

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Solar Orbiter’s mission is to study the Sun up close and from high latitudes, providing the first images of the Sun’s poles ...

X-ray spacecraft reveals odd ‘Cloverleaf’ radio circle in new light (image)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

XMM-Newton, a European Space Agency and NASA-operated space telescope, has imaged a vast cosmic “Cloverleaf” to uncover its mysterious origins. The Cloverleaf ...

NASA releases ‘unprecedented’ Horsehead Nebula image captured by James Webb Space Telescope. What to know about the stellar nursery.

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The world’s most powerful space telescope, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has just released the sharpest infrared images to date of the ...

Interview with ESA chief Josef Aschbacher

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Shaping an ambitious and steady space agenda for Europe requires not only diplomatic aplomb but also a firm grounding in science and ...

Mars Express Discovers Mysterious Martian “Spiders”

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The dark spots in this image from ESA’s Mars Express are the telltale sign of ‘spiders’ scattered across the southern polar region ...

Here’s what they really are

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Sarah Wilson

The Mars orbiter images appear to suggest that the Red Planet has succumbed to an infestation of creepy crawlies, but what’s really ...

A new era: Ariane 6 maiden launch campaign gets underway

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Dr. Sarah Adams

8 On July 5, 2023, the Ariane 5 launch vehicle took flight for the last time, thus ending a storied 27-year career ...