NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
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Scientists call the region of space influenced by the Sun the heliosphere – but without an interstellar probe, they don’t know much about its shape
But scientists don’t really know what the heliosphere’s shape is. Models range in shape from spherical to cometlike to croissant-shaped. These predictions vary in size by hundreds to thousands ...
‘Voyager’s failing signals’: The urgent need for a new deep space probe
NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could ...
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SPHEREx Observatory Launches to Map the Universe
BAE Systems is celebrating the successful launch of NASA's SPHEREx Observatory from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ...
NASA's SPHEREx Observatory launches with BAE Systems-built spacecraft bus and telescope
BAE Systems (LON: BA) is celebrating the successful launch of NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, ...
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News on heliosphere
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 ...
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March 2: NASA may launch the SPHEREx mission to survey the sky in 102 colors.
Another mission to study the sun’s corona, PUNCH or Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, will share the ride to space with SPHEREx. Michael Roston is a senior staff editor for science.