This is the Closest Picture Ever Taken of the Sun

This is the Closest Picture Ever Taken of the Sun
By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/xBPwkG7)

December 24th, 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the Sun so far, coming within just 6.1 million km from the surface of the Sun. During this flyby, it captured data and images, including this incredible picture using the Wide Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR. In this WISPR image, you can see the corona and solar wind, charged particles coming from the Sun, hurled across the Solar System. The next pass will happen in September.

July 12, 2025 at 03:33AM
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