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Final solar eclipse of 2022 happening this morning
The last solar eclipse of the year was visible across Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia and Africa on Tuesday.
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Studying the edge of the Sun’s magnetic bubble
Our corner of the universe, the solar system, is nestled inside the Milky Way galaxy, home to more than 100 billion stars.
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UK and NASA join forces on new mission to study ‘magnetic bubble’ around Sun
The UK Space Agency and NASA have agreed to work together on a mission to observe and map the heliosphere - the area of space surrounding the Sun filled with charged particles known as the solar wind.
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Iraq, UAE sign deal on 5 solar electricity plants
Power-short Iraq inked an agreement on Wednesday for the UAE to build five solar electricity plants with a total capacity of 1,000 megawatts (MW).
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Sounding rocket mission to offer snapshot of Sun’s magnetic field
Measuring a magnetic field isn't so hard if you're inside of it. Measuring a magnetic field remotely - whether from across a room, across a country, or 93 million miles away - is an entirely different story.
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Sandia-developed solar cell technology reaches space
Somewhere among the glitter of the night sky is a small satellite powered by innovative, next-generation solar cell technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories.
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NASA awards Sun-Sky Scanning Sun Photometers for the AERONET Project
NASA has awarded a contract for Sun-Sky Scanning Sun Photometers to CIMEL Electronique of Paris, France to support the AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET).
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New imaging system reveals solar panel defects even in bright sunlight
Researchers have developed and demonstrated a new system that can detect defects in silicon solar panels in full and partial sunlight under any weather conditions.
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Nation to deploy solar observation satellite
China plans to launch its first solar observation satellite next month, according to a project insider.
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Solar cells with 30-year lifetimes for power-generating windows
A new transparency-friendly solar cell design could marry high efficiencies with 30-year estimated lifetimes, research led by the University of Michigan has shown.
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Scientists explore the physics of perovskite, a material with many potential technological applications
Perovskite is one of the most widely studied materials because of its many potential applications.
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Time to shine: scientists reveal at an atomic scale how chlorine stabilizes next-gen solar cells
A team of researchers led by Professor Yabing Qi in the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate…
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PVpallet is ready to rethink solar shipping with game-changing solution
The first recyclable, reusable, adjustable, and collapsible pallet system designed specifically for shipping and protecting solar PV modules is ready for testing with key clients.
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ITMO researchers create nanoparticle paste to make perovskite solar cells more efficient
Researchers from ITMO's School of Physics and Engineering have created a paste of titanium dioxide and resonant silicon nanoparticles that will increase the generation of photocurrent in perovskite solar cells and maximize their efficiency.
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CuPID CubeSat will get new perspective on Sun-Earth boundary
When you help build a satellite the size of a shoebox, you learn pretty much everything about it, says Emil Atz, a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University.
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Parker Solar Probe team sheds new light on structure, behavior of inner solar system dust
Scientists using data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe have assembled a comprehensive picture of the structure and behavior of the large cloud of space dust…