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Closest image of Sun yet taken by NASA's Parker Solar Probe

NASA just got closer to the sun than ever before, so of course they had to take a picture

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. See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: https://t.co/k6WdI1gdUQ pic.twitter.com/RQkrZHbvgQ

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NASA just took the closest-ever images of the sun, and they are incredible (video)

Now, NASA has released remarkable video captured during the historic flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever recorded. The new images were captured with Parker's Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR, revealing a never-before-seen view of the sun's corona and solar winds shortly after they are released from the corona.

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Just Flew Closer to the Sun Than Ever Before and the Footage is Breathtaking

In a historic milestone for space exploration, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has delivered the closest-ever images of the Sun — a blistering 3.8 million miles from its roiling surface. The new images showcase turbulent solar winds and merging eruptions with unprecedented clarity.

John Casani, engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab whose craft unlocked the solar system’s secrets

John Casani, who has died aged 92, was an American spaceflight engineer who led the teams that pioneered Nasa’s explorations ...

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe snaps closest-ever images to sun

On its record-breaking pass by the sun late last year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the ...

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Planets brought down to earth Observatory unveils scale-model solar system

Pouring rain didn't dampen the spirits Saturday of about 100 people who gathered to witness the unveiling of a scale-model solar system at the McCarthy Observatory in New Milford. The ...

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NASA Discovers Why Solar Storms Are More Powerful Than Expected

In April 2023, an unexpectedly strong solar storm caught scientists and the world by surprise. On April 23, Earth was struck by a geomagnetic storm that created vivid auroras visible as far south as ...

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NASA releases first photo of 860-square-foot solar sail in orbit

Science Space NASA NASA releases first photo of 860-square-foot solar sail in orbit The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System could pave the way for new, ultrafast forms of space travel.

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NASA Langley helps fine tune a spacecraft heading to the outer solar system

Now to get to Jupiter, we have to pass Mars — 68 feet from the sun in the scale model. The spacecraft will then use Mars as a slingshot to get itself to the outer solar system.

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New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life

Daniel is Principal Investigator of the Earths in Other Solar Systems team, a large interdisciplinary NASA-funded research group exploring how habitable exoplanet form.

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The cosmos is vast, so how do we measure it?

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly? Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explains ...

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NASA shut off a Voyager 2 tool to save power - Popular Science

After completing their initial mission surveys of the solar system’s gas giants in the 1980’s, NASA turned off multiple instruments that weren’t useful to either probe in interstellar space.

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