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  • Images from Aditya L-1, India's first space-based mission to study the solar system's biggest object, named after Surya, the Hindu god of the Sun, who is also known as Aditya. L1 stands for Lagrange point 1, a spot where the gravitational forces of two large objects, such as the Sun and the Earth, cancel each other out, allowing a spacecraft to "hover." The pictures of the Sun's surface were captured by the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope.

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