An illustration of the sun-bound Parker Solar Probe. Image: Nasa/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
Nasa’s Parker Solar Probe survives close encounter with sun to send home surprising findings
- ‘Spectacular trove’ of data on super-hot corona collected by car-sized spacecraft
- Probe reveals new information on solar wind as scientists seek to solve mysteries of space weather
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Space
An illustration of the sun-bound Parker Solar Probe. Image: Nasa/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
Chinese astronomers have discovered a black hole so huge that it challenges existing models of how stars evolve. Photo: AFP
Chinese astronomers discover ‘impossibly massive’ black hole LB-1
- Scientists from National Astronomical Observatory of China say find has 70 times the mass of the sun, even though physics says that is impossible
- Black hole found using world’s largest galaxy scanner, the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope in northern China
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China science
Chinese astronomers have discovered a black hole so huge that it challenges existing models of how stars evolve. Photo: AFP