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as Pandora鈥檚 Cluster (Abell 2744). <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-webb-uncovers-new-details-in-pandora-s-cluster"><strong>More...</strong></a> </p> <p> <a href="/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2021-121A"><strong>Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)</strong></a>, a joint NASA/ASI mission, has uncovered important new information regarding blazars, supermassive black holes feeding off of surrounding material. <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-ixpe-helps-solve-black-hole-jet-mystery"><strong>More...</strong></a> </p> <h4>Heliophysics</h4> <p> The <a href="/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2018-065A"><strong>Parker Solar Probe</strong></a> made its 15<sup>th</sup> perihelion pass of the Sun, at a distance of 0.06 AU, on 17 March 2023. </p> <p> ESA's <a href="/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2020-010A"><strong>Solar Orbiter</strong></a> reached its 6<sup>th</sup> perihelion, at 0.29 AU, on 10 April 2023. </p> <p> The <a 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