I don’t get the nod to ‘modern’ astronomy.
My answer ,, as to ‘Why NASA?’ is this:NASA is your grandfather’s rock band, in competition with all the other younger garage bands in the neighborhood. The younger ones have a few new things, and one of those bands has been more successful, in a shorter time, than your grandfather’s band.
But your grandfather’s band, unlike the younger band, all have solid retirement checks, so they can play longer than the younger bands, living off paychecks.
NASA to this day believes the Sun is a gaseous plasma with no lithosphere. The bases of this argument came from the belief that angles danced on the rim of the sun holding it together.
They've been creating lies ever since to hold that argument together. They're really good at it to. you should see how they dance around with their fuzzy math to this day. It's the bases of how light bends near a star. It's the foundation of the mass of stars, black holes and all kind of non sense most people believe.
History of the Gaseous Sun with Dr. Robitaille
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxEokSd-o5o Can Stars BEND LIGHT? General Relativity and Gravity with Dr. Edward Dowdye!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ixkOI4k8c&t=312s NASA holds back science WORSE then the pope did centuries ago.