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First maps of the sun’s outer boundary may help predict solar storms

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.
Daily Mail

Astronomers use Solar Orbiter probe to capture the most detailed images ever taken of the Sun's explosive lower atmosphere helping scientists better understand space weather

A joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), the Solar Orbiter was 46 million miles from the surface of the sun when it took the images. A team involving researchers from ...
The Sun

Nasa’s Solar Probe Plus mission to ‘touch the sun’ revealed in behind the scenes video

The Parker probe could solve mystery of our Sun which defies 'laws of nature' because its atmosphere is 300 times hotter than its surface NASA has offered a window into its incredible bid to “touch ...

3I/ATLAS update: Parker Solar Probe saw interstellar comet when it was invisible from Earth

The Parker Solar Probe saw the interstellar comet racing behind the Sun. It took photos of 3I/ATLAS at a time when it had ...
Daily Mail

NASA sun probe becomes the fastest man-made object in history after traveling nearly 400,000mph over the solar surface

A NASA probe has become the fastest man-made object in history. The Parker Solar Probe, which investigates our sun, hit a record speed of 394,736 miles per hour (mph) last month, twice as fast as a ...
The Sun

Nasa to launch Solar Probe Plus mission to the surface of the SUN to protect Earth from ‘huge solar event’

NASA is gearing up to send a robot to the Sun to help prepare for a “huge solar event” that could wreak havoc on Earth. The Solar Plus Probe will come within four million miles of the sun’s surface, ...
The Independent

Nasa probe becomes first spacecraft in history to ‘touch’ the Sun

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Sky

Lift off! NASA's 'touch the sun' Parker Solar Probe mission launches

A space probe that will "touch the sun" and reach record-breaking speeds has successfully blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The Parker Solar Probe lifted off on the Delta IV Heavy rocket a ...
The Independent

ESA’s solar probe captures the reversal of the Sun’s magnetic field, confirming solar wind theory

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter probe may have just captured evidence of a solar magnetic field reversing directions, bolstering a theory for how the well known, but mysterious phenomenon ...
Daily Express

NASA Parker Solar Probe launch date: When will NASA’s probe blast off to TOUCH the Sun?

The US space agency pencilled in a launch period for the solar probe between July 31 and August 23, 2018. And now NASA has confirmed it will make its first attempt to blast the probe into space in the ...
IBTimes UK

Nasa Parker Solar Probe: Just how close can we get to the Sun?

NASA Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope aboard ESA’s SOHO spacecraft took this image of a huge, handle-shaped prominence which are huge clouds of relatively cool dense plasma suspended in the Sun ...
BBC

Parker Solar Probe: Nasa mission to unlock Sun's mysteries delayed

A US space agency Nasa mission to send a satellite closer to the Sun than any before has been stood down. The Parker Solar Probe was set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Saturday, but ...