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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe
NASA ^
| 19 Feb, 2024
| Video Credit: NASA, JHUAPL, Naval Research Lab, Parker Solar Probe; Processing: Avi Solomon; h/t: Ri
Posted on 02/19/2024 1:18:22 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: What's happening near the Sun? To help find out, NASA launched the robotic Parker Solar Probe (PSP) to investigate regions closer to the Sun than ever before. The PSP's looping orbit brings it nearer to the Sun each time around -- every few months. The featured time-lapse video shows the view looking sideways from behind PSP's Sun shield during its 16th approach to the Sun last year -- from well within the orbit of Mercury. The PSP's Wide Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) cameras took the images over eleven days, but they are digitally compressed here into about one minute video. The waving of the solar corona is visible, as is a coronal mass ejection, with stars, planets, and even the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy streaming by in the background as the PSP orbits the Sun. PSP has found the solar neighborhood to be surprisingly complex and to include switchbacks -- times when the Sun's magnetic field briefly reverses itself.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; nasa; parkersolarprobe; science
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To: MtnClimber
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posted on
02/19/2024 1:18:59 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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Pinging the APOD list.
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posted on
02/19/2024 1:19:33 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
I didn’t see Uranus.............................
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posted on
02/19/2024 1:25:01 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: MtnClimber
Anybody know what music is playing in the video?
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posted on
02/19/2024 2:02:46 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: Repeal The 17th
Beethoven’s 7th (it says on the vid lol)
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posted on
02/19/2024 2:08:09 PM PST
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spankalib
To: Red Badger
You gotta give it a sideways look to see Uranus.
To: MtnClimber
Some intense solar activity at the 24 second point. Sooner or later one of those flares is going to knock this probe out.
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posted on
02/19/2024 2:54:52 PM PST
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Nateman
(If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
To: Nateman
Some intense solar activity at the 24 second point. Sooner or later one of those flares is going to knock this probe out. Nothing some body work and paint won't fix.
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posted on
02/19/2024 5:37:47 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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To: spankalib
Wife just rehearsed that at Chamber tonight. She’s freaking!
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posted on
02/19/2024 6:03:30 PM PST
by
PfromHoGro
(Orwell was optimistic.)
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