Why 2026 will be a year like no other for India’s Sun mission

Getty Images This LASCO C2 image, taken 8 January 2002, shows a widely spreading coronal mass ejection (CME) as it blasts more than a billion tons of matter out into space at millions of kilometers per hour. (Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Getty Images

A coronal mass ejection can be several times larger than Earth

For Aditya-L1, India’s first solar observation mission in space, the year 2026 is expected to be like no other.

It’s the first time the observatory – which was placed in…

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