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PUNCH: A New Mission to Unravel the Secrets of the Sun
Currently at Vandenberg Space Force Base, the mission is awaiting launch on March 11, 2025 alongside another NASA mission, SPHEREx, marking an exciting step forward in solar and astrophysical research ...
NASA Launches New Space Telescope and Suite of Solar Satellites
The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...
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NASA set to deliver a knock-out PUNCH to mysteries of the solar wind
A new mission designed to better understand the heliosphere will be the first to map in three dimensions how the solar corona ...
NASA will launch dual missions to explore solar wind and the 'origins of the universe'
The Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (or PUNCH) mission will study the sun’s solar wind, according to NASA ...
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Tiny plasma jets on the sun drive the elusive solar wind, Europe's Solar Orbiter reveals
The "solar wind" refers to pockets of energetic particles ... lines that stretch into space rather than loop back to the sun's surface, serving as cosmic highways that allow superheated plasma ...
Neutrinos could tell us about the inside of the sun and establish density structure
Neutrinos generated through solar fusion reactions travel effortlessly through the sun's dense core. Each specific fusion ...
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NASA's PUNCH is set to study how the Sun influences the space around us
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying PUNCH successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:10 P.M. EDT on March ...