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OTD in Space – March 7: NASA Launches Orbiting Solar Observatory

On March 7, 1962, NASA launched the first Orbiting Solar Observatory. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Eight of these satellites were launched between 1962 and 1975 to study the ...

Large filament eruption on sun that was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a huge filament eruption in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/SDO | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Floating, Floating by Augus ...
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NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory Will Search For Life Outside Our Solar System

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory "will draw on technologies proven by the agency’s Hubble, Webb and upcoming Roman Space ...

Volunteers find oddly high solar flare rates

Patches of the sun's surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can ...

NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag

Van Allen spacecraft re-enters over the Pacific with 1 in 4,200 chance of causing injury NASA's Van Allen Probe A has re-entered Earth's atmosphere eight years earlier than expected, with a 1 in 4,200 ...