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NASA caught solar wind doing a wild U-turn on Parker Solar Probe

The Sun’s outflow is supposed to be a one-way trip, with charged particles streaming steadily into interplanetary space. Now NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has caught that flow doing something far stranger ...
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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 ...
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NASA Parker Solar Probe Flies 3.8 Million Miles From The Sun to Capture The Closest-Ever Photos — And It's Stunning

Astronomers had a busy week with new data coming in from the Sun as NASA’s probe circles the solar atmosphere. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made a record-breaking pass by the Sun, and the captured ...
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Moment of Science: Parker probe offers insights into sun, solar wind

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - If you think 2,500 degrees is hot, try 10,000! This is the temperature around the sun’s surface. But this, of course, didn’t stop man from trying to get as close to it as ...