Parker Solar Probe: A spacecraft has 'touched' the sun for the first time

On April 28, 2021, at 0933 UT (3:33 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time), NASA’s Parker Solar Probe reached the sun’s extended solar atmosphere, known as the corona, and spent five hours there. The spacecraft is the first to enter the outer boundaries of our sun.


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Source: Phys.org