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NASA's sun-studying spacecraft captures space rainbow
short by Vaishnavi Mishra / on Saturday, 24 May, 2025
NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission captured rainbow-like phenomenon in space, showing colourised zodiacal light created by sunlight reflecting off dust particles orbiting Sun. Its WFI-2 instrument took images through all three of its polarisers in succession for the first time to create this view. The PUNCH studies how Sun’s outer atmosphere becomes solar wind.
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