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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                   2025 March 31   
      
                    Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun   
        Video Credit: NASA, JHUAPL, Naval Research Lab, Parker Solar Probe;   
                            h/t: Richard Petarius III;   
      Music: Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 by N. Rimsky-Korsakov;   
       Source: Musopen; Performance: Czech National Symphony Orchestra (via   
                     Musopen); Music Credit: Wikimedia Commons   
      
      Explanation: If you watch long enough, a comet will appear. Before   
      then, you will see our Solar System from inside the orbit of Mercury as   
      recorded by NASA's Parker Solar Probe looping around the Sun. The video   
      captures coronal streamers into the solar wind, a small Coronal Mass   
      Ejection, and planets including, in order of appearance, Mercury,   
      Venus, Saturn, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter. Between the emergence of Earth   
      and Mars, Comet Tempel 1 appears with a distinctive tail. The   
      continuous fleeting streaks are high energy particles from the Sun   
      impacting Parker's sideways looking camera. The featured time-lapse   
      video was taken last year during Encounter 21, Parker's 21st close   
      approach to the Sun. Studying data and images from Parker are   
      delivering a better understanding of the dynamic Sun's effects on   
      Earth's space weather as well as humanity's power grids, spacecraft,   
      and space-faring astronauts.   
      
               Growing Gallery: Partial Solar Eclipse of 2025 March   
                        Tomorrow's picture: yes, flocculent   
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          Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)   
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