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NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a ...
As instrument commissioning and calibration checks continue for NASA's newly launched PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona ...
NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby ...
The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — to isolate features found within the solar wind. This is because one of ...
These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.
PUNCH—short for the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere—launched into low-Earth orbit last month, and its just taken its first images in what will hopefully be a fruitful period of ...
captured its first light images on April 14, offering a preliminary glimpse of the Sun’s corona, as NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission opened two of its ...
Voyager 1 officially left what researchers call the heliosphere — the term for the vast and crucial bubble of the sun's influence — on August 25, 2012. It sailed into the void between stars ...
NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH ... cameras to the sky and captured their so-called first light images in a major milestone for the mission. The successful ...
This week was monumental for NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere ... capture “first light,” the mission’s first images of the sun’s outer atmosphere and the ...