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NASA probe is the first spacecraft to ever enter the sun's atmosphere

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The Parker Solar Probe has braved 2 million degree Fahrenheit heat to do what was previously thought impossible.

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  1. KVIA El Paso

    NASA's Parker Solar Probe becomes first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun (opens KVIA El Paso)

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    By Ashley Strickland, CNN Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to “touch the sun.” The Parker Solar Probe has successfully flown through the sun’s corona, or upper atmosphere, to sample particles and our star’…

  2. Forbes

    For The First Time, NASA ‘Touches’ The Sun (opens Forbes)

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    The Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, is the first spacecraft to enter the sun’s atmosphere.

  3. Phys

    Parker Solar Probe: A spacecraft has 'touched' the sun for the first time (opens Phys)

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    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.

  4. CNN

    This is the first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun (opens CNN)

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    Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has successfully flown through the sun's corona, or upper atmosphere, to sample particles and our star's magnetic fields.

  5. CBS News

    NASA probe is the first spacecraft to ever enter the sun's atmosphere (opens CBS News)

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    The Parker Solar Probe has braved 2 million degree Fahrenheit heat to do what was previously thought impossible.

  6. Scientific American

    NASA Spacecraft ‘Touches’ the Sun for the First Time Ever (opens Scientific American)

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    The Parker Solar Probe has passed through a boundary and into the Sun’s atmosphere, gathering data that will help scientists better understand stars

  7. The Times of Israel

    NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ sun for 1st time, dives into its atmosphere (opens The Times of Israel)

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    Parker Solar Probe comes within 8 million miles of Earth's nearest star at it flies along uneven boundary between atmosphere and outgoing solar wind

  8. Washington Post

    NASA probe that ‘touched the sun’ for first time could help people better understand the solar system (opens Washington Post)

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    “Humanity has touched the sun,” Nicola Fox, division director for NASA’s Heliophysics Division, said Tuesday in announcing that the Parker Solar Probe entered the sun's atmosphere earlier this year, a groundbreaking accomplishment for scientists.

  9. Deutsche Welle

    NASA probe enters sun's atmosphere for first time | DW (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Scientists hope to understand about solar winds and the sun's magnetic field that holds the galaxy together. The Parker Solar Probe set off from earth in 2018 before it "touched" the sun earlier this year.

  10. Science News

    The Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to visit the sun’s atmosphere (opens Science News)

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    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe crossed a boundary between the sun’s atmosphere and interplanetary space that has been predicted for decades but never observed.

  11. The Hill

    NASA spacecraft touches the sun for the first time ever (opens The Hill)

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    The Parker Solar Probe flew through the sun’s upper atmosphere, called the corona. The milestone marked a major step for the spacecraft and “one giant leap for solar science.”

  12. Newsweek

    How NASA probe beat the heat to become first spacecraft to touch the sun (opens Newsweek)

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    The Parker Solar Probe is surviving blisteringly hot temperatures to investigate the mystery of why the sun's atmosphere is hotter than its surface.

  13. The Guardian

    Nasa’s solar probe ‘touches’ sun for first time, dives into unexplored atmosphere (opens The Guardian)

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    The Parker probe is exploring the corona to help scientists better understand solar outbursts that can interfere with life on Earth

  14. Forbes

    NASA’S Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun’s Searing Upper Atmosphere (opens Forbes)

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    For the first time ever, a manmade probe has breached the outer atmosphere of our star, the Sun. Earlier this spring, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe came within some 8 million miles above the Sun’s photosphere or surface.

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