The probe captured images and other data from within the sun's corona during a record-breaking approach last year.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made the closest flyby of the sun ever made by a spacecraft in Dec. 25. See the views it captured ...

Now, NASA has released remarkable video captured during the historic flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever ...

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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 our star.

The newly released images from a December flyby are so detailed that scientists can see explosions and the flow of solar winds.

Image taken by Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument during its record-breaking flyby of the sun on Dec. 25, 2024, shows the solar wind racing out from the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe swoops in for its seventh and final swing past Venus ahead of its history-making encounter with the ...

Key Takeaways NASA’s Parker Solar Probe—designed, built, and operated at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab—has taken the closest ever images to the sun, captured just 3.8 million miles from the ...

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 racing out from the Sun's ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is no stranger to breaking records. On Dec. 24, 2024, Parker made history by flying closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history. The probe reached a distance of just ...

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 ...