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Sun

The spacecraft’s record close distance of 3.8 million miles may sound far, but on cosmic scales it’s incredibly close. If the solar system was scaled down with the distance between the Sun and Earth the length of a football field, Parker Solar Probe would be just four yards from the end zone — close enough to pass within the tenuous outer atmosphere of the Sun known as the corona.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Achieves Historic Close Encounter with the Sun

Sun corona

NASA Selects JEDI Instrument to Study the Sun and Solar Eruptions

This image combines a depiction of the sun's magnetic fields with a photograph taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The intricate pattern of lines reveals how the sun's magnetism shifts and adapts in response to its constant internal and surface movements.

Discovery Pinpoints Origin of Sun’s Magnetic Field, Improving Solar Storm Predictions

Sunflowers

For the sunflower, turning toward the sun requires multiple complex systems

The 2017 eclipse as captured by Chasing the Eclipse I project.

NASA selects 5 experiments for 2024 total solar eclipse

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Shedding light on the Sun

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