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UV Telescope Reveals Sun's Far Side

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PARIS, France, June 29 -- Scientists say that they now can peek around the Sun and predict whether solar storms on its far side will shortly appear on the side facing the Earth, thanks to an UV telescope aboard a European spacecraft. The Solar Wind Anisotropies, or SWAN, is a telescope on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) -- a joint ESA/NASA project launched in December 1995 -- that can map the whole sky in ultraviolet light, a feat impossible from Earth, where the atmosphere completely filters short-wavelength UV rays. A European team of scientists headed by Jean Loup...Read full article

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