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    NASA’s PUNCH Catches First Rainbow and Other New Images

    A hazy rainbow-colored glow rises from the bottom of the view, with colors transitioning from red on the far left to green in the center and blue on the far right. The glow is brightest near the bottom center, just above a yellow star symbol, and gradually fades moving upward. The background is black and speckled with stars, including a small cluster to the upper right of center and a larger, V-shaped arrangement of stars in the upper left.

    As instrument commissioning and calibration checks continue for NASA’s newly launched PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, its four spacecraft continue to deliver new images — including its first rainbow-colored view of the sky and the first images taken by two of its instruments. The goal of PUNCH is to reveal new details of...

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