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Orbiting Solar Observatory

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noun

  1. OSO.


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NASA’s Orbiting Solar Observatory 8, launched in 1975, detected a smattering of polarized x-rays from a single source, the Crab nebula, Weisskopf says.

From Science Magazine

One clue came last week from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which announced that it was scrapping its advanced orbiting solar observatory project.

From Time Magazine Archive