On December 24, NASA's solar probe mission touched the Sun

Published December 20, 2024 at 12:48 PM EST

On December 24, NASA's Parker Solar Probe touched the Sun diving through plumes of plasma, and entering the Sun's Corona, its outermost atmosphere.

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