POV: Through A Solar Explosion With the Parker Solar Probe #SpaceSaturday

POV: Through A Solar Explosion With the Parker Solar Probe #SpaceSaturday

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe promised the closest encounters yet with the star at the center of our solar system. Recent images of the probe flying through an eruption from the sun are just the beginning of what the probe will have to offer. Here’s more from MOTHERBOARD:

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to swoop directly through a coronal mass ejection (CME), a type of eruption from the Sun, on September 5, 2022. As it traveled through this gushing stream of energetic particles, Parker took images and observations that have helped scientists unravel long-standing mysteries about how CMEs interact with dust cast off by celestial objects in the solar system.

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