Astronomy Picture of the Day 📸 27 September 2025 📅
"A Rocket in the Sun"
On the morning of September 24, a rocket was photographed crossing the Sun’s bright disk from Orlando, Florida—roughly 50 miles west of its launch site at Kennedy Space Center 🚀☀️. It carried three space weather missions: NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1. All three have successfully begun their journey to Lagrange Point 1 (L1), located about 1.5 million kilometers toward the Sun 🌞🛰️. Fittingly, the rocket passed in front of active solar regions, including sunspot AR4225, which appeared just beside its nose.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 📸 27 September 2025 📅
"A Rocket in the Sun"
On the morning of September 24, a rocket was photographed crossing the Sun’s bright disk from Orlando, Florida—roughly 50 miles west of its launch site at Kennedy Space Center 🚀☀️. It carried three space weather missions: NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1. All three have successfully begun their journey to Lagrange Point 1 (L1), located about 1.5 million kilometers toward the Sun 🌞🛰️. Fittingly, the rocket passed in front of active solar regions, including sunspot AR4225, which appeared just beside its nose.
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