Aerial launch puts NASA's IRIS satellite in orbit to study the sun  

Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 23:20 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's newest solar observatory launched into space late Thursday, beginning a two-year quest to probe some of the sun's biggest mysteries.An Orbital Sciences Corp.

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