You’re looking at the closest-ever images of the Sun. Taken by our Parker Solar Probe during a close flyby, they show the solar wind racing out from the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Images and data from this mission are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth. https://go.nasa.gov/4kA9vSO | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Three years after its launch, the Parker Solar Probe made its first passage through the sun's upper atmosphere. In 2018, we got a behind-the-scenes look at how NASA engineers built the probe to survive the tremendously hot journey. | NPR

On Aug. 12, NASA successfully launched Parker Solar Probe toward the Sun, where it will fly closer than any spacecraft ever has before. This week’s 10 Things blog tells you what you need to know about how this mission will uncover new secrets about our star: https://go.nasa.gov/2NoapD2 | NASA Solar System Exploration

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. 🛰☀️ This movie shows data from the WISPR instrument on Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory | Science Channel

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We've been studying the Sun from afar for decades, and now we're going where the action is. Parker Solar Probe launches this summer to get closer to the Sun than any spacecraft has ever gone. Throughout its seven-year mission, its four suites of instruments will send back invaluable data that will help scientists answer foundational questions about the Sun, like: Why is the Sun's corona so much hotter than its surface? How is the solar wind accelerated to supersonic speeds? And what drives solar