Science
25 Years of Science in the Solar Wind
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(B) An artist's illustration of the Wind spacecraft, which launched 25 years ago in 1994.
(C) NASA missions continue to use Faraday cups to study the solar wind, much like the Solar Wind Experiment from Wind that launched in 1994, on the left. On the right is the Parker Solar Cup aboard Parker Solar Probe, which launched in 2018.
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WFIRST Will Add Pieces to the Dark Matter Puzzle
Entangled among the galaxies in this Hubble image are mysterious-looking arcs of blue light. These are actually distorted images of remote galaxies behind the cluster. The collective gravity of all the normal and dark matter trapped inside the cluster warps space-time and affects light traveling through the cluster toward Earth.
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Spitzer Telescope Spots a Ghoulish Gourd
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust carved out by a massive star. A drawing overlaid on the image reveals why researchers nicknamed this region the "Jack-o'-lantern Nebula."
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Sonoma County Kincaid Fire Races Through 20,000 Acres in Two Days
Sonoma County Kincaid Fire Races Through 20,000 Acres in Two Days
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NASA Taps Telecommunications Technology to Develop More Capable, Miniaturized Spectrometer
This schematic shows an application of arrayed waveguide gratings, a technology developed by the telecommunications industry, combining eight laser arrays (left) to a single waveguide (far right) that would deliver specific infrared wavelengths ultimately to a detector.
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