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Into the extreme… 

 

Stars like our own Sun heat gas in their very outer atmospheres to million degree temperatures

Such hot gas emits strongly in the extreme ultraviolet

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Nextup

 
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NExtUP is the Normal-incidence Extreme Ultraviolet Photometer - a SmallSat mission concept designed to observe stars in the extreme ultraviolet spectral region.