NASA 's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) missions will be aboard a ...

PUNCH, or Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, will study how the sun affects the solar system. The mission will observe the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona ...

Astronomers have discovered that our solar system traveled through a dense, star-forming region near Orion about 14 million years ago. This cosmic journey may have altered Earth’s environment, ...

A sun poisoning rash is usually an intense red, inflamed, and itchy eruption on the skin, sometimes with small bumps or blisters. “This happens because the skin is severely inflamed from excessive UV ...

Scientists often keep an eye on the heliosphere, which is the giant shield of charged particles that wraps around our planetary system. Interstellar gas or dust can compress this boundary if the sun ...

Boneyard Beach, located on the northern tip of Big Talbot Island State Park, is a unique beach in Florida known for its large collection of sun and salt bleached driftwood trees. The beach is not ...

The fact that the Voyager spacecraft are the only two human-made objects to make it to interstellar space means that the data they collect is unique. Thus, the decision to switch off any ...

The spacecraft is sharing its ride to space with NASA's $150-million PUNCH (short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere ... designed to study our sun. This mission aims to understand ...

Accompanying the telescope is a suite of satellites known collectively as PUNCH, which will study the sun’s outer atmosphere ... to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere. The mission consists of ...

Both probes are the only spacecraft to operate beyond the heliosphere, the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and particles that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto. Instruments necessary for ...

It can capture images in 11 different wavelengths. This helps scientists examine different layers of the Sun’s atmosphere. Other instruments, such as SoLEXS and HEL1OS, study solar X-rays.