NASA's Punch Releases Its First Images of Eruptions from Sun
10 months ago
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- NASA's PUNCH mission released its first images of coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
- The images were presented at the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting.
- PUNCH's wide-field instruments captured detailed views of CMEs evolving in space.
- The mission aims to improve understanding and prediction of space weather.
- Images also show Venus, Jupiter, constellations, and the Pleiades star cluster.
- PUNCH uses four cameras working together as a single 'virtual instrument'.
- The mission will provide 3D observations of the Sun's outer atmosphere.
- Data from PUNCH could lead to more accurate space weather predictions.
- Southwest Research Institute leads the PUNCH mission.