You’re looking at the closest-ever images of the Sun. Taken by our Parker Solar Probe during a close flyby, they show the solar wind racing out from the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Images and data from this mission are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth. https://go.nasa.gov/4kA9vSO | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

6.7K views · 426 reactions | 27 million miles into its historic mission to the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe looked back at home: https://go.nasa.gov/2Aqu6WT "Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was…" —Carl Sagan | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center | Facebook

10K views · 358 reactions | Today the Parker Solar Probe will make...