360-degree view of the sun will enable early detection of potentially damaging solar storms
(ScienceNews) This solar portrait captures the far side of the sun, hidden from Earth’s view, as seen by NASA’s twin STEREO spacecraft. Now that the craft have begun an 8-year exploration of the sun’s far side, scientists for the first time have obtained 360-degree panoramas of the sun, as shown in an accompanying video. The dark crack is a narrow region where data still needs to be gathered. Read full article here.