{"id":3925725,"date":"2026-04-30T08:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/esas-proba-3-is-unlocking-secrets-of-the-solar-wind\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:04:10","slug":"esas-proba-3-is-unlocking-secrets-of-the-solar-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/esas-proba-3-is-unlocking-secrets-of-the-solar-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA&#8217;s Proba 3 is unlocking secrets of the solar wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It has been a dream of astronomers and solar scientists for ages. A new mission gives solar researchers a powerful new tool in their arsenal: on-demand, total solar eclipses. Launched in 2024, The European Space Agency&#8217;s Proba-3 mission has proven the feasibility of a free-flying, space-based coronagraph. Now, the first science results from the mission are giving us a view of the origin of space weather. The results were recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-esa-proba-secrets-solar.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a dream of astronomers and solar scientists for ages. A new mission gives solar researchers a powerful new tool in their arsenal: on-demand, total solar eclipses. Launched in 2024, The European Space Agency&#8217;s Proba-3 mission has proven the feasibility of a free-flying, space-based coronagraph. Now, the first science results from the mission [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}