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Parker Solar Probe Goes Where No Other Spacecraft Has Ever Gone, and Gets the Most Detailed Images of Sun

The Sun is the centre of the solar system, and also the "apple of the eye" for many astronomers, as they have been vying for a closer look at the stunning star. For everyone, NASA has fulfilled their ...
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A NASA probe just flew through the Sun’s atmosphere closer than ever — skimming plasma hot enough to melt steel and beaming the data back home

On December 24, 2024, while most of the world was settling into Christmas Eve, a spacecraft the size of a small car was ...
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Skimming the Sun, probe sheds light on space weather threats

This photo provided by NASA on July 15, 2025, was taken by Parker Solar Probe's WISPR instrument during its record-breaking flyby of the Sun, showing the solar wind ...
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See it: Closest image of Sun yet taken by NASA's Parker Solar Probe

Last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its record-breaking flyby of the Sun, zooming just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface, and we’re just now seeing some results from that close brush with ...
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These are the closest-ever images of the sun from Parker Solar Probe's historic flyby

NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history with the closest-ever approach to the sun last December, and we're finally getting a look at some of the images it captured. The space agency released a ...
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NASA Solar Probe Flies Dangerously Close To The Sun In An Amazing Photo Shoot

NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) recently captured some mind-blowing images of the Sun from only 3.8 million miles away from its surface. The photos were taken late last year, and it is the closest any ...
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Fastest Human Spacecraft Ever Finds That the Sun Recycles Itself

It's exactly one year since a human-made spacecraft made the closest approach to the Sun in history. Called the Parker Solar Probe, the piece of technology came within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million ...
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Fastest Spacecraft Ever Made Returns the Closest Images of the Sun in History

On Christmas Eve 2024, a human-made spacecraft came closer to the Sun than any other piece of technology our species has ever made. The Parker Solar Probe, as it's called, came within 3.8 million ...
The Washington Post

See images of solar eruptions on the sun in unprecedented detail

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface. In unprecedented detail, the visuals reveal ...

The solar wind's secret hammerheads and what they tell us about heat in space

The proton sharks showed up on a Friday. In a routine data calibration meeting for NASA's Parker Solar Probe in 2020, a small ...
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Parker Solar Probe team receives Collier Trophy for record-breaking solar encounter

Samantha Magill (NAA vice chair, center) awards the Collier Trophy to Nicki Fox (Associate Administrator, NASA Science Mission Directorate, and former Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist), Andy ...