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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                 2025 September 27   
      
                                A Rocket in the Sun   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Pascal Fouquet   
      
      Explanation: On the morning of September 24 a rocket crosses the bright   
      solar disk in this long range telescopic snapshot captured from   
      Orlando, Florida. That's about 50 miles north of its Kennedy Space   
      Center launch site. This rocket carried three new space weather   
      missions to space. Signals have now been successfully acquired from all   
      three - NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, NASACÇÖs   
      Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and the National Oceanic and   
      Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1   
      (SWFO-L1) - as they begin their journey to L1, an Earth-Sun lagrange   
      point. L1 is about 1.5 million kilometers in the sunward direction from   
      planet Earth. Appropriately, major space weather influencers, aka dark   
      sunspots in active regions across the Sun, are posing with the   
      transiting rocket. In fact, large active region AR4225 is just right of   
      the rocket's nose.   
      
                      Tomorrow's picture: spots on the rocks   
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