Closest image of Sun yet taken by NASA's Parker Solar Probe
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Last week, NASA released a new batch of images from the probe as it traveled even closer to the sun. On December 24, 2024, the spacecraft reached 3.8 million miles from the surface, a distance that allowed its Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) to document the steady stream of electrically charged particles known as solar winds.
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