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Parker Solar Probes sends back first observations

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has sent back its first observations to the earth for scientists to decode the...

📅 December 5, 2019

Dipankar Banerjee selected as Co-Investigator for NASA’s PUNCH mission

NASA has selected Texas-based Southwest Research Institute to lead its PUNCH mission which will image the Sun. This...

📅 July 3, 2019

UK researchers uses 1m Solar Telescope telescope to determine that Sun’s magnetic field is 10 times stronger than thought

According to a new collaborative study by the Queen’s University Belfast and Aberystwyth University in the UK, the...

📅 April 3, 2019

Solar storm headed to earth

A geomagnetic storm from the sun might bring the aurora borealis, the northern lights as far south as...

📅 March 24, 2019

NASA launches Parker Solar Probe mission to touch Sun

On August 12, the US space agency NASA has successfully launched the Parker Solar Probe mission to send...

📅 August 13, 2018

HINODE

Hinode formerly known as Solar-B is an international mission to study our nearest star, the sun. The mission...

📅 April 6, 2018

Source of Water on Moon discovered

Scientists have discovered that the most likely source of water on Moon is the constant stream of charged...

📅 October 17, 2012

Solar flare reaches earth caused no damage

Earth recently embraced a power solar storm in last 5 years but caused no damage. What are Solar...

📅 July 18, 2012

Thin band of Anti-protons covers Earth- Study

Recently, a study was published in the ‘Astrophysical Journal Letters’, which has confirmed the theoretical work that predicted...

📅 October 30, 2011

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