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what the trip will tell us

On 24 December, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe whizzed through the Sun’s atmosphere, diving closer to our star than any spacecraft ever has. It survived the fiery passage, and on 1 January it reported back to Earth that its scientific instruments had successfully collected data during the journey. Staring at the Sun — close-up images from […]

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World’s largest telescope pauses expansion amid funding crunch

The world’s largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which is based in Australia and South Africa, is changing its plans and will not be expanding into eight African countries on its original timetable. In August, SKA director-general Philip Diamond said in a briefing at the International Astronomical Union’s general assembly in Cape Town, that […]