{"id":5599,"date":"2023-09-19T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T11:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/nasa-spacecraft-captures-images-of-solar-storm-eruption-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T11:02:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T11:02:07","slug":"nasa-spacecraft-captures-images-of-solar-storm-eruption-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/nasa-spacecraft-captures-images-of-solar-storm-eruption-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA spacecraft captures images of solar storm eruption | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A NASA spacecraft captured remarkable images of a solar storm eruption as it was flying by the sun. The pictures captured depict the fiery ejection \u201cvacuuming up\u201d space dust left over from the formation of the solar system.<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe captured the images on September 5, and NASA shared the images with the public on Monday. The probe was lucky enough to take images of one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever recorded, according to the space agency.<\/p>\n

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Another first! Our Parker Solar Probe flew through an eruption from the Sun, and saw it \u201cvacuuming up\u201d space dust left over from the formation of the solar system. It’s giving @NASASun<\/a> scientists a better look at space weather and its potential effects on Earth.\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/AcwLXOlI6m<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NASA (@NASA) September 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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CMEs are immense eruptions from the sun\u2019s outer atmosphere or corona, and are so powerful that they can even potentially disrupt communications and navigation technologies on Earth such as electricity grid or satellites.<\/p>\n

NASA says that learning how CMEs interact with interplanetary dust could help scientists better determine a CME\u2019s speed of travel toward Earth which could help better forecast when the effects could hit Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese interactions between CMEs and dust were theorized two decades ago, but had not been observed until Parker Solar Probe viewed a CME act like a vacuum cleaner, clearing the dust out of its path,\u201d Guillermo Stenborg, an astrophysicist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), which built and operates Parker, said in a report<\/a> on NASA\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

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The Parker Solar Probe was developed to investigate aspects of the sun-Earth system that directly impact life and society. Launched in 2018, and part of NASA\u2019s Living With a Star program, the mission is scheduled to last eight years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n