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

Would the farthest probe we’ve ever sent… ever be caught by the fastest probe we’ve ever built? Voyager 1 is still moving at 38,000 mph, more than 15.7 billion miles from Earth — while NASA’s Parker Solar Probe races around the Sun at 430,000 mph, the fastest human-made object in history. If Parker could somehow hold that speed… it would reach Voyager’s distance in just about four years. Not yet — but it’s still chasing history. #nasa #space #universe #science | ScienceExplained