US EditionSun’s Ready for Its Closeup: NASA’s Closest Ever Images of the Sun
NEAR THE SUN, JUL 10 – The Parker Solar Probe’s images reveal solar wind behavior and coronal mass ejections critical for predicting space weather impacts on Earth’s technology and astronauts, NASA said.
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever images of the Sun's corona on December 24, 2024, near the solar surface from 3.8 million miles away.
- The probe launched in 2018 to study the Sun’s outer atmosphere and solar wind, aiming to understand how charged particles escape the Sun’s gravity and generate space weather.
- Using its Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe , the spacecraft captured detailed images showing several coronal mass ejections interacting and accumulating, a process that plays a crucial role in influencing space weather effects on Earth and astronauts.
- Angelos Vourlidas explained that the images reveal CMEs stacking closely together, providing valuable insight into how these events combine—an important factor for improving space weather predictions.
- The new detailed data will improve space weather forecasting, enhancing protection for astronaut safety and Earth’s technological systems, with the next close pass scheduled for September 15, 2025.
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The American space agency NASA released images taken by a probe in the sun's atmosphere on Thursday. The images come from "closer to the sun than we've ever been," according to NASA, which calls them "astonishing results."
Parker Solar Probe captures closest-ever photos of the sun during record-breaking flight
During a record-smashing flight through the sun’s corona in Dec. 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever images of our home star. Now, NASA has finally revealed what the daredevil probe saw.
The American Space Agency published on Thursday images captured by a probe in the atmosphere of the Sun. These images are the closest to the sun ever recorded, according to NASA. ...
Closest-ever images of the Sun captured by Nasa probe
NASA has released the closest-ever images of the Sun, captured just 3.8 million miles from its surface. Since its launch in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe has gradually circled closer to the sun, flying past Venus to use the planet’s gravity to move it into a tighter orbit. Newly released footage shows historic close-up images captured during the spacecraft’s closest approach to the Sun on December 24, 2024. “This new data will help us vastly impr…
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