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When imaging objects in space, distance isn’t the only challenge: Earth’s atmosphere gets in the way, too. As turbulence ripples through our planet’s protective layer, images of stars, the Moon, and even other galaxies become fuzzy and distorted. Correcting these flaws requires adaptive optics, or AO, a technique that uses …

The sun is a giant nuclear fireball that, as a rule, melts anything that comes close. Yet, there’s a NASA plan to send a spacecraft into the sun’s upper atmosphere to get a closer look at it and gather data on coronal mass ejections (CME). The spacecraft is called Solar …