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NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching the Earth Today
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
U of I professor leads NASA mission sending satellites to space
NASA is getting ready to launch twin satellites for a study on the sun's energy, and a University of Iowa professor is ...
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UI professor led mission to study sun’s impact on Earth’s magnetic field with satellite launching later this month.
A study led by University of Iowa Associate Professor David Miles will study how the sun impacts the Earth’s magnetic field ...
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A camera flew through the sun’s corona, didn’t melt, and sent back these first-ever close-ups of the sun
Cameras on the ground need strong solar filters to photograph things like an eclipse, yet NASA has made a camera that was ...
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NASA to launch rocket on Friday for CU Boulder space science mission
NASA and the University of Colorado Boulder will launch a 60-foot rocket out of New Mexico on Friday, which, once launched, ...
Colossal Eruption Carves ‘Canyon of Fire’ Onto the Sun’s Surface
The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere.
Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...