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Behold! Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole
Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them
Science12 Jun 2025 | 45
Parker Solar Probe set for blisteringly hot date with the Sun on Christmas Eve
Ho-ho-holy heatshield!
Science23 Dec 2024 | 37
India launches two ESA sun-spotters that will fly in incredibly precise formation
Proba-3's Occulter will blot out the sun to create eclipse-like effect Coronagraph can observe
Science09 Dec 2024 | 14
SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset
Probe may not make it to 30 as funding runs out and replacement is launched
Science03 Dec 2024 | 24
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory datacenter flooded, offline until 2025
Burst water pipe blots out the Sun – or at least the data about it collected from two probes
On-Prem03 Dec 2024 | 18
Do look up! NASA unfurls massive shiny solar sail in orbit
60 years after Arthur C Clarke wrote Sunjammer, space agency catches up
Science04 Sep 2024 | 55
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Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic
Byteflow dropped by around half under some of the path of totality
Networks09 Apr 2024 | 25
NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too
No, this was not the cause of cellular network outages that hit the USA on Thursday
Science23 Feb 2024 | 19
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