Posted on 08/11/2025 1:01:02 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Everybody sees the Sun. Nobody's been there. Starting in 2018, though, NASA launched the robotic Parker Solar Probe (PSP) to investigate regions near to the Sun for the first time. The featured time-lapse video shows the view looking sideways from behind PSP's Sun shield in December during the closest approach of any human-made spacecraft to the Sun, looping down to only about five solar diameters above the Sun's hot surface. The PSP's Wide Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) cameras took these images over seven hours, but they are digitally compressed here into about 5 seconds. The solar corona, including colliding coronal mass ejections (CMEs), is visible here in unprecedented detail, with stars passing far in the background. The Sun is not only Earth's dominant energy source, but its variable solar wind also compresses Earth's atmosphere, triggers auroras, affects power grids, and can even damage orbiting communication satellites.
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Todays image is a short video at the source link.
🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔 Todays image is a short video at the source link.
Looks like they took it at night..................
Yes, if they ever land on the Sun, they will need to do it at night.
And take lots of sunscreen. LOTS of sunscreen.
that corona looks like it’s gotta virus
Lots of people have said “just land on the sun at night” because they don’t understand how it works: night is when they release the sun dogs.
bttt
Whowas the congress genius who advised doing just that?
Parker Solar Probe getting a hotfoot.
Just a wildA$$ guess, Hank Johnson
wonder what that big, bright object at the very end of the 5 seconds is. Mercury? Venus??
IIRC, it was one of the negress geniuses
That is really cool!
Err, I meant really hot, that escalated to nuclear fusion.
400 times hotter than where the earth is!
Here is a video of another ship getting close to the sun...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDaOYj2wggg
I did not know that!
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