Berkeley plans to piggyback 'local bubble' probe on satellite

Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley have won NASA support for an extreme ultraviolet instrument that will probe the "local bubble" around the sun from a vantage point on a commercial communications satellite. Dubbed the Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) mission...

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