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Harnessing the Sun: How Solar Panels Generate Clean Energy 🌞

🌌🪐🔭Have you ever wondered what the orbits of the planets in our Solar System actually look like? Many people imagine the planets moving around the Sun in perfectly circular orbits, but the reality is much more complex and fascinating! We made a video that shows the actual orbits of the planets in our Solar System. You'll see that the orbits are not perfect circles, but rather they are elliptical. Also, they all orbit on a relatively flat plane, but not exactly flat. Watching this video is a g

Solar Orbiter has made its first close pass by the Sun, studying our star and space with a comprehensive suite of instruments — and the data is already revealing previously unseen details. “These unprecedented pictures of the Sun are the closest we have ever obtained,” said Holly Gilbert, NASA project scientist for the ESA - European Space Agency & NASA mission at NASA Goddard. “These amazing images will help scientists piece together the Sun’s atmospheric layers, which is important for understa