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Jun 5, 2018
NASA is sending a spacecraft to investigate the ‘bubble’ that protects our solar system
You map, IMAP, we all map.
Jun 25, 2013
NASA Set To Launch New Solar Satellite IRIS [Updated]
IRIS is designed to unravel one of the sun's best-kept secrets.
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May 13, 2013
Big Pic: Watch The Moon Swallow The Sun In X-Ray
The Hinode telescope captures some amazing views of last week's annular solar eclipse.
Feb 14, 2013
Happy Valentine’s Day! Love, Your Sun
The sun is just bursting with love and 14-million-degree plasma.
Jan 24, 2013
In 5-Minute Journey, Flying Telescope Cracks Mystery Of Solar Atmosphere
A flying telescope saw "magnetic braids" at a resolution of 0.2 arcseconds - about the size of a dime seen from 10 miles away.
Jun 9, 2011
Approaching Solar System’s Edge, Voyager Probes Detect A Foamy Sea of Magnetic Bubbles
A frothy moat, not a shield, protects us from cosmic rays
Mar 21, 2011
How We’re Still Trying to Shed Light on Persistent Solar Mysteries
After staring at the sun for hundreds of millennia, humans still have burning questions about it
Feb 8, 2011
NASA’s STEREO Mission is Now Beaming Back the World’s First 3-D View of the Sun
We may spend out days basking it its life-enabling glow, but there’s a lot we don’t know about our sun … Continued
