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Despite decades of robotic explorers on the surface of Mars capturing countless thousands of photographs of the skies, scientists hadn't seen any sign of a sun halo - until now.
NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted a sun halo, a phenomenon scientists had lost hope of ever seeing on Mars. Another form of sun halo, called a parhelion, has what other animal-inspired name?
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The European sun-observing Solar Orbiter spacecraft doubles up as a Venus explorer, providing the most detailed measurements of the scorched planet's magnetic field to date. The data might help reveal how the solar wind changes the planet's thick atmosphere over millions of years, scientists said.
The entry-level for Celestron's excellent StarSense sky recognition app-aligned telescopes is a decent option for observing the moon and planets but lacks the quality in both build and optics to impress with galaxies, nebulae and star clusters.
