A NASA spacecraft captured incredible imagery as it flew through an eruption from the sun recently. Pictures beamed back to scientists on Earth even show the fiery ejection “vacuuming up” space dust left over from the formation of the solar system. The fly-through by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe took place on September 5 and NASA …
Parker Solar Probe’s Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) instrument captured the moment the … [+] spacecraft passed through a coronal mass ejection (CME) on Sept. 5, 2022. getty NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has become the first spacecraft ever to fly through a coronal mass ejection from the sun—a powerful eruption of billions of tons …
Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Parker Solar Probe yesterday made a flyby of Venus as part of its mission to study the sun from closer than any other spacecraft. It was the sixth and penultimate time the car-sized spacecraft required a gravity assist from the second planet in …
Parker Solar Probe enters the solar atmosphere. NASA After scientists recently unveiled new insights into the solar wind during its previous close encounter, the Parker Solar Probe, launched by NASA, has successfully completed its latest approach to the sun. On June 27, the probe reached a distance of only 5.3 million miles from the solar …
The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft’s approach to the sun, as imagined by an artist. This probe, launched in 2018, is helping us better predict the space weather events that impact life on Earth.… [+] NASA The solar wind, a surge of charged particles emanating from the sun, impacts the planets it travels by causing auroras, …