A Spacecraft Flew Closer to the Sun Than Ever – and Is Rewriting a Century-Old Mystery

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...
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NASA’s closest-ever sun photo has the internet asking 1 huge question

NASA’s latest close-up of our star is not just a pretty picture. When the Parker Solar Probe swooped to within 3.8 million miles of the Sun on Dec. 24, 2024, it delivered a view of the corona that no ...
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NASA’s $1B probe hit 400,000 mph to skim the sun, here’s what it saw

NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to accelerate to about 400,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft in history. That ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe spots powerful magnetic explosion aimed at the sun's surface

While making a death-defying dive through the sun’s atmosphere, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly recorded a powerful plasma explosion heading toward our star’s surface in unprecedented detail.
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Probe maps Sun's outer boundary, reshaping solar wind views

How does the solar wind get heated as it leaves the Sun and approaches Earth? This is what a recent study published in ...
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NASA solar probe becomes first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...
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Parker Solar Probe maps the boundary shaping the solar wind

Close to the sun, the solar wind, a steady stream of charged particles, accelerates until it cannot turn back. During a record pass about 3.8 million miles above the surface, Parker Solar Probe ...

Kissing the sun: Unraveling mysteries of the solar wind

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led research team has measured the dynamics and ever-changing "shell" of hot gas from ...
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NASA Spacecraft ‘Touches Sun’ For Third Time In Defining Moment For Humankind

The heavily armored Parker Solar Probe has traveled to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface — what NASA calls “hyper close.” It’s the third time it has ...
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Parker Solar Probe sends back photos from the sun's outer atmosphere

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe passed into the outer atmosphere of the sun and took incredible images of the sun’s corona. Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Nour Rawafi, astrophysicist and Parker Solar ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe captures solar wind doing a 'U-turn'

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