The Joint EUV coronal Diagnostic Investigation (JEDI) will fly aboard the European Space Agency’s Vigil space weather mission and capture new views that will help researchers connect features on the Sun’s surface to those in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Credits: NASA NASA announced Tuesday it selected a new instrument to study the Sun and how it creates massive solar eruptions. The agency’s Joint EUV coronal Diagnostic Investigation, or JEDI, will capture images of the Sun in extreme ultraviolet light, a type of light invisible to our eyes but…
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Astronomers Map the Solar System’s Edge in 3D
Collecting high-speed atoms has enabled researchers to trace the shape of our Sun’s protective bubble. The post Astronomers Map the Solar System's Edge in 3D appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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