Video: NASA launches high-tech telescope IRIS

Friday, June 28, 2013 - 13:30 in Astronomy & Space

NASA launched IRIS - a new high-tech telescope - into outer space. The spacecraft is on a mission to figure out how the sun heats its atmosphere to millions of degrees, sending out particles that define the boundaries of the solar system.

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