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Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:01:57 JST Corey S Powell

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has set a new record as the fastest object ever built, hitting a velocity of 394,736 mph (635,266 kph) relative to the Sun.
That's about 300 times as fast as a speeding bullet. Damn!
https://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Show-Article.php?articleID=193 #NASA #space #science
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1. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 17th close approach to the Sun on Sept. 27, breaking its own distance record by skimming just 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) of the solar surface. Credit: NASA-JHUAPL
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  For the Record: Parker Solar Probe Sets Distance, Speed Marks on 17th Swing by the Sun
  
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  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 17th close approach to the Sun on Sept. 27, breaking its own distance record by skimming just 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) of the solar surface. Set up by gravity-assist flyby of Venus on Aug.
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  Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:01:56 JST Corey S Powell
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  For a dose of perspective: Even at the peak speed of the Parker Solar Probe (~180 km/sec), it would take more than 7,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system.
  Interstellar distances are HUGE.
  #space #science #travel
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  1. An artist's illustration of our solar system and what lies beyond, including the interstellar medium, then other galaxies, and finally the closest exoplanets to Earth. Credit: Charles Carter/Keck Institute for Space Studies
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  Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:01:57 JST Corey S Powell
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  Working in tandem, NASA's Parker Solar Probe and ESA's Solar Orbiter are making big discoveries about how the Sun works.
  One particularly intriguing observation: a strange plasma "snake" slithering all the way across the solar surface.
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03301-1 #astronomy #astrodon #science
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  1. A snakelike disturbance of relatively cool plasma rippled across the Sun before a huge eruption of superheated gas in September 2022.Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team; acknowledgement: Frédéric Auchère, IAS
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    Staring at the Sun — close-up images from space rewrite solar science
    
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    Researchers have never had such detailed views of our nearest star.
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  Benjamin Geer (benjamingeer@zirk.us)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:02:14 JST Benjamin Geer
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  @coreyspowell 0.06% of the speed of light! Are there any interesting relativistic effects?
  
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  Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⧖ (dgoldsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:02:19 JST Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⧖
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  @benjamingeer @coreyspowell Not really (if I did my math right). That corresponds to its clock running about 5.5s per year slower than an observer at rest. Still, they probably need to take it into account in the software.
  
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