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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captures its closest-ever images of the Sun

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has slipped closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history, and its latest flyby has now delivered the most intimate images ever captured of our star. The new views do more ...
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Solar wind ‘U-turn’ spotted by Parker Solar Probe

Images captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details ...
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A NASA spacecraft is piercing the sun's scorching atmosphere right now

Parker Solar Probe reached "perihelion," the nearest point to the sun in its orbit, on Dec. 13, 2025. Credit: ASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Steve Gribben illustration A NASA spacecraft is making a close ...
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At 430,000 miles per hour, Parker Solar Probe could cross Australia east to west in about 21 seconds; the Sun's gravity, not its engines, makes it the fastest human-made object

Representative stock image of the Sun. This image does not show Parker Solar Probe or its December 2024 perihelion. Image by Jay Brand on Pexels. At its fastest, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe moves about ...
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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 ...
Digital Journal

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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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 ...
Discover Magazine

A Solar Probe's Journey to the Sun Has Revealed the Mystery of Solar Flares

Learn how the Parker Solar Probe's passage through the Sun's outer atmosphere has shed light on the process that creates solar flares. What fuels the Sun’s mightiest solar flares? The Parker Solar ...
WIS TV

Moment of Science: Parker probe offers insights into sun, solar wind

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - If you think 2,500 degrees is hot, try 10,000! This is the temperature around the sun’s surface. But this, of course, didn’t stop man from trying to get as close to it as ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe snaps closest-ever images to sun

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has recently delivered groundbreaking discoveries, capturing images and data that bring us closer than ever to understanding the Sun’s elusive behavior. Published in ...
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Parker Solar Probe spies solar wind 'U-turn'

Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields ...