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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is rewriting everything we thought we knew about the Sun. Launched to explore our star more closely ...
Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest-ever flyby.
The probe captured images and other data from within the sun's corona during a record-breaking approach last year.
Now, NASA has released remarkable video captured during the historic flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever ...
Set your Parker Solar Probe sun flyby clocks for Dec. 24 at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT), Space Fans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
What powers the solar wind was debated for decades, as there was controversy over whether it was driven by magnetic reconnection or Alfvén waves. But until Parker’s advanced instruments could ...
When Parker Solar Probe got very close to the sun, Tuesday of this week, we were - our estimate, it will - the side of the heat shield facing the sun will experience temperatures in order of ...
The Parker Solar Probe is about to embark on its longest scientific observation campaign to date, getting as close as 11.6 million miles from the Sun.
In 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe on an unprecedented mission to study the sun up close. The mission was defined with three key scientific goals: To trace the flow of energy that heats ...
As a 91-year-old emeritus professor in 2018, he will be at Cape Canaveral next month to watch NASA launch its Parker Solar Probe, the agency’s first mission named for a living person.