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NASA's Parker Solar Probe makes surprising revelation about mechanism behind solar storms

Parker Solar Probe has uncovered new details about how magnetic reconnection on the Sun flings charged particles at insane ...
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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 ...
Space.com

Launch Photos! NASA's Parker Solar Probe Blasts Off to Touch the Sun

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NASA’s Parker Probe captures the exact moment solar storms are born

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has provided the first direct in-situ measurements of magnetic reconnection, capturing the exact ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

NASA scientists detect surprise explosion on the sun

The findings will help scientists refine theoretical models of magnetic reconnection to better understand how solar storms ...
autoevolution

Fastest Human Spacecraft Ever Finds That the Sun Recycles Itself

It's exactly one year since a human-made spacecraft made the closest approach to the Sun in history. Called the Parker Solar Probe, the piece of technology came within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million ...
Space Coast Daily

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Finds Surprises in an Explosion Near the Sun

Before a solar storm races across space and impacts technology on Earth, it starts with an explosive process on the Sun known as magnetic reconnection.
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Flying to the sun is surprisingly hard. Here's why

Getting from the Earth to the sun should seem reasonably straightforward since the star is always in the same place in our solar system relative to Earth's orbit. But when the Parker Solar Probe ...