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Korea, US space agencies to send co-developed solar coronagraph to ISS
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
South Korea's national space agency, KASA, is set to launch a solar coronagraph, developed in collaboration with NASA, to the International Space Station. The Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) will enhance understanding of the sun's corona and solar wind, aiding space weather prediction.
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World's largest turbulence simulation unmasks the flow of energy in astrop
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers have uncovered a previously hidden heating process that helps explain how the atmosphere that surrounds the Sun called the "solar corona" can be vastly hotter than the solar surface that emits it.
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Study reveals that solar coronal loops may be optical illusions
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Boulder (Colorado) [US], March 6 (ANI): Coronal loops are the ropey strands of plasma that scientists have long thought existed in the Sun's atmosphere. According to a new study, many coronal loops may actually be optical illusions. The study challenged prevailing assumptions of what is know
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Astronomers unveil the magnetic field of the solar corona
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Honolulu [Hawaii], June 5 (ANI): While the world has been dealing with the corona virus pandemic, researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying the solar corona, the outermost atmosphere of the Sun which expands into interplanetary spac
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