The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
The plasma coming off the Sun expands through space, along with the Sun’s magnetic field. Together they form the heliosphere within the surrounding local interstellar medium – the plasma ...
Tuesday (March 4) is shaping up to be a delightful day for space explorers, as not one but two major NASA missions are expected to take to the skies — and interestingly, though the spacecraft ...
But that's not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the sun, is over a hundred times ...
The telescope will map the sky in 102 infrared colors, and the data it collects will shed light on the origins of the ...
The PUNCH mission, which stands for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, is made of four small satellites — three wide-field imagers and a narrow-field imager — that'll be ...