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The Sky This Week from January 3 to 10: Earth’s closest approach to the Sun
The Quadrantids’ radiant lies in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, a region of the sky occupied by Boötes. It’s ...
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Nasa spacecraft ‘operating normally’ after closest-ever approach to sun
A Nasa spacecraft which made the closest-ever approach to ... it has circled gradually closer to the sun – flying past Venus in order to use the planet’s gravity to move it into a tighter ...
Nasa spacecraft ‘operating normally’ after closest-ever approach to sun
A Nasa spacecraft which made the closest-ever approach to the sun is safe and “operating normally”, the space agency said. On ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its closest approach to the sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...
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NASA spacecraft survives closest pass to Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its record-breaking closest ... planet," Fox added. Launched in 2018, the spacecraft used seven flybys of Venus to gravitationally direct it ever closer to the ...