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A spacecraft flew through an explosion on the sun — here's the footage.

Also: What our sun looked like as a baby

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Swapna Krishna
September 21, 2023

This week's space news

NASA flew the Parker Solar Probe through a coronal mass ejection (CME)

No spacecraft were harmed in the making of this video!

What did our sun look like when it was a little baby?

HH 211 gives us some insight into the infancy of a sunlike star.

Why JWST has those spikes on bright stars in its images

They’re not lens flares or errors, they’re called diffraction spikes.

Discussing Starfield on Pop Culture Happy Hour

In 'Starfield', human destiny is written in the stars : Pop Culture Happy Hour

Starfield is one of the biggest and most anticipated video game releases of the year. It's a massive open world game set in humanity's future, when we've settled on star systems throughout the galaxy. There's over 1000 planets to explore, multiple factions to join, spaceships to pilot and quests to go on. But does Starfield live up to the hype?

www.npr.org/2023/09/21/1197954178/pop-culture-happy-hour-draft-09-21-2023

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