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Record Breaking: Parker Solar Probe makes history with closest approach to the Sun

No human-made object has ever passed this close to a star.

image of Venus

No, you probably wouldn’t see bolts of lightning flashing from Venus’ clouds

Venus may be a (slightly) gentler place than some scientists give it credit for.

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe soared through one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections

Witnessing the massive solar eruption with Parker Solar Probe.

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Parker Solar Probe flies into the fast solar wind and finds its source

It’s like seeing jets of water emanating from a showerhead through the blast of water.

Image showing solar surface

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 15th close approach to the Sun

Dozens of observatories collected data during this encounter.

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe uncovered clues about the origins of the solar wind

This finding is helping scientists better understand the 60-year-old mystery.

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is heading into a much different solar environment

Parker solar probe’s upcoming close encounter with a highly active sun.

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible-light images of Venus surface

The images, combined into a video, reveal a faint glow from the surface.

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Parker Solar Probe completes Unprecedented swing by sun

NASA's Parker Solar probe has completed swing by the Sun with an impressive and space record speed that will take under an hour to...

new insights about the sun’s electric field

First definitive measurements of the sun’s electric field

Physicists describe the sun's electric field.

Images from the WISPR instrument — short for Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe — on board NASA’s Parker Solar Probe spacecraft have provided the first complete view of the ring of dust along Venus’ orbit. The dust ring stretches diagonally from the lower left to the upper right of the image, marked by the red dashed line in the annotated version of the image (right). The bright objects are planets: from left to right, Earth, Venus, and Mercury. Part of the Milky Way galaxy is visible on the left side. The four frames of this composite image were captured on Aug. 25, 2019. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher

The first complete look at Venus’ orbital dust ring

An unprecedented peek at Venus' dust ring.

When flying past Venus in July 2020

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus

A striking image of the planet’s nightside from 7,693 miles away.

Parker Solar Probe circles in front of the sun in this artist rendering

A look at the sun’s dusty environment

A search that could help to reveal how planets like Earth come into being.

Parker Solar Probe is gonna make a record-breaking approach to the sun today

Parker Solar Probe is gonna make a record-breaking approach to the sun today

This flyby will also be the first time that the probe will pass within 0.1 AU of the sun.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe began its longest observation campaign to date

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe began its longest observation campaign to date

On May 9, 2020, Parker Solar Probe started its longest science observation campaign. The probe activated its at a distance of 62.5 million miles...

ESA's Solar Orbiter mission will face the Sun from within the orbit of Mercury at its closest approach. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

ESA’s Solar Orbiter launched successfully

Solar Orbiter will address big questions in Solar System science to help us understand how our star creates and controls the giant bubble of...

Illustration of Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben

Parker Solar Probe completes fourth closest approach of the Sun

The probe’s heat shield reached new record temperatures as well.

Shedding new light on the Sun

This first data from Parker reveals our star, the Sun, in new and surprising ways.

First science data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is out

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) data is available in the archive and selected data sets are in CDAWeb.

Parker Solar Probe helps solve sun's super-heating mystery

Parker Solar Probe helps solve sun’s super-heating mystery

For more than a half-century, since the problem of coronal heating was discovered in the 1940s, astronomers have tried to establish why the Sun's...

Parker Solar Probe completes second close approach to the Sun

Launched on August 12, 2018, the probe has reached its perihelion, the second point on its orbit furthest from the Sun and is now...

Parker Solar Probe Nails First Orbit Of The Sun, Preps For Second Pass

Parker Solar Probe Nails First Orbit Of The Sun, Preps For Second Pass

NASA'S Parker Solar Probe has made its first orbit of our star, Sun and getting ready for the second. Launched on August 12, 2018, the...

This image from Parker Solar Probe's WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument shows a coronal streamer, seen over the east limb of the Sun on Nov. 8, 2018, at 1:12 a.m. EST. Coronal streamers are structures of solar material within the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, that usually overlie regions of increased solar activity. The fine structure of the streamer is very clear, with at least two rays visible. Parker Solar Probe was about 16.9 million miles from the Sun's surface when this image was taken. The bright object near the center of the image is Jupiter, and the dark spots are a result of background correction. Credits: NASA/Naval Research Laboratory/Parker Solar Probe

Parker Solar Probe snaps its first image from inside Sun’s atmosphere

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is on the mission to enlight the physics of our star, the Sun. From Oct. 31 to Nov. 11, 2018, Parker Solar...

Illustration of Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Credit: ​NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben

Parker Solar Probe reports good status after close solar approach

Parker Solar Probe recently made a history by being the closest ever approach to the Sun by a human-made object. Parker Solar Probe is alive...

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Parker Solar Probe breaks record, becomes closest spacecraft to Sun

On 29 October 2018, at 1:04 pm EDT (17:04 UTC), Parker Solar Probe just made a history by making the closest ever approach to...

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Parker solar probe changed the game before it even launched

On Oct. 3, 2018, Parker Solar Probe performed the first significant celestial maneuver of its seven-year mission. As the orbits of the shuttle and Venus...

Delta IV Heavy Lifts off for Parker Solar Probe Mission

NASA successfully launches the mission to touch the Sun

Parker Solar Probe is a planned NASA's robotic spacecraft to probe the outer corona of the Sun. It will approach to within 8.86 solar...

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Traveling to the Sun: Why won’t Parker solar probe melt?

This summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere. The main objective of the mission is...

Artist’s concept of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. The spacecraft will fly through the Sun’s corona to trace how energy and heat move through the star’s atmosphere. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL

NASA invites media to view launch of mission to “Touch the Sun”

In order to revolutionize our understanding of the sun, NASA made an announcement about their mission to 'Touch the Sun'. For, that, they designed a spacecraft...

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