Nasa Sun Images

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  NASA's Solar Orbiter Captures Highest-Resolution Images Of The Sun To Date

  The Solar Orbiter mission has provided the most detailed images yet of the Sun's visible surface, capturing stunning views of sunspots and plasma flows.

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  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes Final Venus Flyby Before Historic Sun Encounter

  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, will make its final Venus flyby on Nov. 6. This manoeuvre will bring the spacecraft into a new orbit, allowing it to approach within 3.8 million miles of the sun, closer than any human-made object has been. While the probe’s primary mission is to study the sun, its instruments have captured rare data...

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  Parker Solar Probe Prepares for Closest Approach to Sun After Last Venus Flyby

  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist on 6 November, altering its path to make an unprecedented 3.86-million-mile approach to the sun on 24 December. The manoeuvre will allow Parker to pass closer than any human-made object to the sun, where it will study solar activity. Earlier flybys also revealed surprising det...

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  Perseverance Rover Sees Phobos Block the Sun During Martian Solar Eclipse

  NASA's Perseverance rover recently captured a stunning solar eclipse on Mars, showcasing the moon Phobos as it partially blocked the sun. This remarkable event, photographed on September 30, 2024, was made possible by the rover's Left Mastcam-Z camera, which highlighted Phobos's irregular shape. Measuring about 17 miles long and orbiting Mars at a ...

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  NASA Astronaut Captures Stunning Green Aurora Behind Russian Soyuz Spacecraft Docked at ISS

  NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, aboard the International Space Station, recently captured an extraordinary image of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft with a vibrant green aurora in the background. The photograph, taken during Expedition 71 in 2024, showcases the breathtaking beauty of space and the fascinating interplay between solar activity and Earth...

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  James Webb Captures Stunning Image Of Most Distant Star Ever Detected

  Earendel possesses a temperature approximately twice that of the sun and is likely accompanied by a stellar partner.

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  For The First Time, Curiosity Rover From NASA Discovers "Sun Rays" On Mars

  NASA revealed photographs of a Martian sunset obtained by the Curiosity rover, calling it the first image of sun rays "so clearly viewed on Mars".

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  Previously Hidden Sunspot Unleashes Powerful X-Class Solar Flare, Causes Radio Blackout Across South Pacific

  A strong solar flare struck the Earth on Thursday and caused a shortwave radio blackout over a large area of the South Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand.

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  NASA's Satellite Captures "Creepy" Smiley Face On Surface Of Sun After Solar Eclipse

  Following Tuesday's partial solar eclipse, the Sun developed what appeared to be a smiley face pattern in its atmosphere. NASA Sun shared the image which showed a face-like pattern made out of black patches against the Sun's otherwise fiery features.

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  NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Captures Its First Image of Neptune

  NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first image of Neptune. The most striking feature in the image is the crisp view of the planet's rings. This comes a few days after James Webb Telescope captured its first images of Mars.

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  Researchers Estimate Size of Largest Known Star Through Sharpest Optical Image Ever Captured

  R136a1, a massive star with a mass around 150 or 200 times the Sun, has been observed in great detail, along with other stars in the cluster. The images from Gemini South's Zorro instrument have provided scientists with the clearest images of the star so far, which suggest it may not be as massive as previously thought.

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  "Did Not Survive": NASA Films Comet Plunging Into Sun

  American Space Agency NASA's Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured images of a comet disintegrating as it approached the Sun.

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  Huge Solar Flare Emerging From New Region On Sun's Surface Captured In Stunning NASA Image

  American Space Agency NASA has spotted a huge solar flare erupting from the side of the Sun which may be the result of a highly active solar area spinning in this direction.

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  Webb Telescope: NASA to Reveal Deepest Image Ever Taken of Universe

  NASA administrator Bill Nelson said that the agency will reveal the "deepest image of our Universe that has ever been taken" on July 12, thanks to the newly operational James Webb Space Telescope.

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  Closest Ever Images Of Sun Reveal "Solar Hedgehog", South Pole

  The Solar Orbiter launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) has captured stunning never-before-seen details of the Sun. A video posted by the ESA on Twitter shows a geyser of gas nicknamed "solar hedgehog" by the scientists.