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Touching the Sun

Touching the Sun
Touching the Sun NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to fly through the Sun's corona in 2021. These images show coronal streamers, bright features moving upward in the upper images and angled downward in the lower row. Previously, streamers have only been seen from afar. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory