NASA's Parker Solar Probe enters the Sun's atmosphere for the first time

Illustration courtesy of NASA NASA has announced that the Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere, the corona, for the first time. While there, the probe sampled particles and magnetic fields and captured historic, close-up photos of coronal streamers. Much like humankind's first steps on the Moon, the Parker Solar Probe' touching the very stuff the Sun is made of' will usher in a new era of solar science. We are significantly closer to understanding critical information ...