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MPS Göttingen#ParkerSolarProbe was in the right place at the right time in September 2022: It passed through a magnetic reconnection region in the Sun's corona. #SolarOrbiter observed the event from a distance. Study led by #SwRI in @NatureAstronomy
See the #MPSGoettingen press release "Flying through “Magnetic Construction Site” in the Sun's Corona" at
https://www.mps.mpg.de/flying-through-magnetic-construction-site
#NASA #Parker #SolarProbe #ESA #SolarOrbiter #Sun #SolarPhysics #Flare #SolarFlare #MagneticReconnection #Space #SouthwestResearchInstitute
formuchdeliberationNASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed is 2nd ultra-close flyby of the sun, and survived to transmit its data back to Earth... #space #nasa #solarprobe https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/nasas-daredevil-solar-spacecraft-survives-2nd-close-flyby-of-our-sun
EnkeyLa sonda Parker è riuscita a portare a termine un’impresa mai compiuta prima, sopravvivendo a un sorvolo del Sole proprio alla vigilia di Natale. Questo evento storico porta l’esplorazione spaziale a un altro livello. Ripercorriamo insieme i passi della missione.
“Volare così vicino al Sole è stato un momento storico per l’umanità nello studio della nostra stella. #solarprobe #sole #sonda #sorvolo
https://www.enkey.it/2025/01/20/la-sonda-parker-a-due-passi-dal-sole/
La sonda Parker a due passi dal Sole
La sonda Parker è riuscita a portare a termine un’impresa mai compiuta prima, sopravvivendo a un sorvolo del Sole proprio alla vigilia di Natale. Questo evento storico porta l’esplorazione spaziale a un altro livello. Ripercorriamo insieme i passi della missione.
Sci.News: Parker Solar Probe Survives Closest-Ever Approach to Sun…
On December 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe soared just 6.1 million km (3.8 million miles) above the surface of our home star, racing through the solar atmosphere at 692,000 km per hour (430,000 mph) — the fastest speed ever achieved by a human-made object... #sun #space #spaceexploration #solarprobe #parkersolarprobe
Scientific EuropeanParker Solar Probe survives Closest Encounter to Sun
Parker solar probe has sent signal to Earth confirming its safety followingits closest approach to Sun on 24 December 2024 at the closest distance...........
#corona #EugeneParker #NASA #Parkerprobe #ParkerSolarProbe #solarcorona #Solarprobe #solarwind #Spaceweather #Sun
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MikeMCPythonStudent@NoFear1075 Great question, Anthony! Throughout its seven-year mission, our Parker #SolarProbe spacecraft... https://t:co/zKd6ym8waT
BKG🛰️ Mit Daten der #ParkerSolarProbe Raumsonde der #NASA wird u. a. die Corona der Sonne und die Entstehung von #Sonnenwind untersucht.
☀️ Heute passiert die Sonde den sonnennächsten Punkt in diesem Umlauf und wird dabei viele wichtige Messungen durchführen.
📡 Unterstützung erhält sie dieses Mal auch von unserem Radioteleskop SFX, das damit seine erste richtige Messkampagne bestreitet.
petapixel (unofficial)Jaw-Dropping Footage from the First Spacecraft to Touch the Sun
NASA announced this week that its Parker Solar Probe was the first spacecraft to ever "touch the Sun" by flying through its corona, or upper atmosphere. The probe captured the first photos ever from within the corona, and those images were then turned into this incredible 13-second timelapse video.
The footage shows what the Parker Solar Probe saw as it passed through the Sun's corona back in August 2021, flying through structures known as coronal streamers.
"These structures can be seen as bright features moving upward and downward in this video compiled from the spacecraft's WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe) instrument," the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory writes. "Such a view is only possible because the spacecraft flew above and below the streamers inside the corona. Until now, streamers have only been seen from afar."
These are the same streamers that can be captured from Earth in photos of total solar eclipses.
"Flying so close to the Sun, Parker Solar Probe now senses conditions in the magnetically dominated layer of the solar atmosphere – the corona – that we never could before," says Parker project scientist Nour Raouafi. "We see evidence of being in the corona in magnetic field data, solar wind data, and visually in images. We can actually see the spacecraft flying through coronal structures that can be observed during a total solar eclipse."
The Milky Way can be seen rotating across the frame in the timelapse, but what's even more incredible is that multiple planets in the Solar System were also captured in the images. There are even views of Earth as seen from within the Sun's atmosphere.
Here are the features and planets labeled in still frames by astrophysicist Grant Tremblay of the Center for Astrophysics, a collaboration between Harvard and the Smithsonian Institution:
The Parker Solar Probe will continue to make closer and closer approaches to the Sun's surface over the coming years, and it is likely to enter the Sun's corona again as early as next month.
"I’m excited to see what Parker Solar Probe finds as it repeatedly passes through the corona in the years to come," says NASA Heliophysics Division Director Nicky Fox. "The opportunity for new discoveries is boundless."
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