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Up-close footage of a solar eruption

Rob Beschizza
Jul 15, 2025
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Image: NASA

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is orbiting the sun 3.8 million miles from its surface (Mercury is about 40m miles out, for comparison), surfing the solar eruptions and sending astonishing footage back to Earth.

In unprecedented detail, the visuals reveal how superhot ionized particles from the sun travel through space, providing information that ca…

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