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NASA's Parker Solar Probe is solving long-standing mysteries about the sun. Here's what we've learned so far.
The goal of the Parker Solar Probe mission is to investigate the mysteries of the sun's corona, its outer atmosphere. What ...
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With The Help Of A Map Of Stars Near The Sun, Astronomers Can Search For Alien Planets That Might Hold Life
"We need to look at what kind of X-ray doses these planets are receiving." The team started with a list of 57 stars in close enough range to our solar system for space telescopes to observe their ...
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How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form?
How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System. Thanks ...
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If The Sun's Gravity Is So Strong, How Come All The Planets Are Moving Away From It?
The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on the dark matter which seems to keep galaxies together and rotating with ...
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Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew
We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...