Its next passes of the Sun will be on March 22 and June 19. The post The Parker Solar Probe just made its closest ever approach to the Sun appeared first on Astronomy Magazine.

made up of super hot plasma. "The solar corona is one of the last places in the solar system where no spacecraft has visited before," Parker Solar Probe scientist Adam Szabo said in a statement.

The solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at about one million miles per hour and travels throughout the entire solar system. First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago ...

This is because the internal solar environment plays an important role in determining the weather in space and also the Earth ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission has traveled closer to the Sun than any human-made object before it. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted ...

This holiday season, while most of us are celebrating on Earth, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be making history millions of ...

A little over a year ago, and about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles) from where you’re currently reading this, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe quietly made history by safely flying through ...

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and one of the most exciting was the launch of the Parker Solar Probe which will study the Sun in more detail than has ever been possible before. The probe has already broken several records and ...

In Parker’s first close approach to the Sun, it observed that the solar wind near the Sun was indeed abundant with Alfvén waves. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completes its first trip around the sun ...