Parker Solar Probe will explore the corona, a region of the Sun only seen from Earth when the Moon blocks out the Sun’s bright face during total solar eclipses
Parker Solar Probe will explore the corona, a region of the Sun only seen from Earth when the Moon blocks out the Sun’s bright face during total solar eclipses. The corona holds the answers to many of scientists’ outstanding questions about the Sun’s activity and processes.
Parker Solar Probe is World’s first mission to touch the Sun.
JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE
Webb is an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or Webb) will be a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. The telescope will be launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in Spring 2019.
The James Webb Space Telescope will not be in orbit around the Earth, like the Hubble Space Telescope is – it will actually orbit the Sun, 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) away from the Earth at what is called the second Lagrange point or L2.
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope was an observatory in space dedicated to finding planets outside our solar system with a particular focus on finding planets that might resemble Earth.
During its over nine year’s life, Kepler had observed 530,506 stars and detected 2,662 planets.
It used the transit photometry detection method for searching for an exoplanet, which looked for periodic, repetitive dips in visible light of stars caused by planets passing or transiting in front of its host star.
