The solar wind's secret hammerheads and what they tell us about heat in space

The proton sharks showed up on a Friday. In a routine data calibration meeting for NASA's Parker Solar Probe in 2020, a small ...
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Closer To The Sun Than Ever Before - See The Parker Solar Probes View

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made the closest flyby of the sun ever made by a spacecraft in Dec. 25. See the views it captured of the ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe mapped an unseen part of the sun at its most active moment

For the first time, scientists have created detailed, 2D maps of the sun's outermost atmosphere. This feat was accomplished using data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which has been dipping in and out ...
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A NASA probe just flew through the Sun’s atmosphere closer than ever — skimming plasma hot enough to melt steel and beaming the data back home

On December 24, 2024, while most of the world was settling into Christmas Eve, a spacecraft the size of a small car was ...
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A NASA spacecraft is piercing the sun's scorching atmosphere right now

Parker Solar Probe reached "perihelion," the nearest point to the sun in its orbit, on Dec. 13, 2025. Credit: ASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Steve Gribben illustration A NASA spacecraft is making a close ...
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Moment of Science: Parker probe offers insights into sun, solar wind

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - If you think 2,500 degrees is hot, try 10,000! This is the temperature around the sun’s surface. But this, of course, didn’t stop man from trying to get as close to it as ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe finds hidden barrier that explains the sun’s mysterious heat

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown closer to the Sun than ever before, offering the first direct glimpse into the turbulent solar atmosphere. Scientists have discovered that a phenomenon called the ...
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Kissing the sun: Unraveling mysteries of the solar wind

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led research team has measured the dynamics and ever-changing "shell" of hot gas from ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope and the Parker Solar Probe Changed How We See the Universe. Now, Their Models Have Found a Home at the Smithsonian

Imagine an enormous telescope with a sun shield the size of a tennis court that sends back proof of a lemon-shaped exoplanet raining diamonds. Then, picture a flying object that can hurtle toward the ...
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NASA's Space Probe Finds Evidence Of A "Helicity Barrier" In The Sun's 2 Million Kelvin Atmosphere

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...