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NASA solar probe becomes first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

Could We Actually Launch a Supervillain Into the Sun?

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.
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NASA to make second parker solar probe launch attempt

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe did not get off the ground early Saturday morning as a few glitches halted the countdown, and then time ran out in the 65-minute launch window. p pulse Follow A second ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe finds hidden barrier that explains the sun’s mysterious heat

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown closer to the Sun than ever before, offering the first direct glimpse into the turbulent solar atmosphere. Scientists have discovered that a phenomenon called the ...
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NASA outlines Parker Solar Probe mission to 'touch the sun'

NASA announced on Wednesday that the agency's "unprecedented" mission to "touch the sun" will be named after the renowned astrophysicist Eugene Parker, whose work has revolutionized scientists' ...
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NASA Releases Closest Ever Images Of The Sun, Snapped As Probe Travels Through Its Atmosphere

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

What fuels the Sun's mightiest solar flares? The Parker Solar Probe, NASA's trailblazing mission that has been circling the Sun for six years, has come across an answer to this long-standing mystery.
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Parker Solar Probe confirms decades-old theoretical models about magnetic reconnection

New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has confirmed decades-old theoretical models of magnetic reconnection, the process that releases stored magnetic energy to drive solar flares, ...
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NASA's Space Probe Finds Evidence Of A "Helicity Barrier" In The Sun's 2 Million Kelvin Atmosphere

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun's scorching surface

NEW YORK — NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. This week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles ...

How do you fire someone into the sun?

We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the sun.