Did you see it from your house? The first NASA mission to ‘touch’ our sun is underway after a dramatic early morning launch. The Parker Solar Probe is now racing through space on a path that will eventually bring it within 4 million miles of the sun’s surface. MORE: https://bit.ly/2P3I9an | FOX 13 News - Tampa Bay

Humanity is about to reach out to the sun for the very first time as NASA launch their Parker Solar Probe, but what does this mean? Find out more about the solar probe and the Sun in our upcoming blockbuster exhibition. http://bit.ly/2AOjljy | Science Museum

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. 🛰☀️ This movie shows data from the WISPR instrument on Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory | Science Channel

In a move no one expected, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe just made a daring attempt to pass through the glowing tail of 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar comet racing toward the Sun. What happened next left scientists completely speechless. As the probe entered the region near Atlas’s plasma tail, its instruments detected strange energy spikes, magnetic turbulence, and bursts of radiation that have never been recorded before. The data feed even went silent for several minutes — and when it came back online

Parker Solar Probe Mission Launches to Touch the Sun - NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission launched Aug. 12 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will be the first to fly directly through the Sun’s corona – the hazardous region of intense heat and solar radiation in the Sun’s atmosphere that is visible during an eclipse. It will gather data that could help answer questions about solar physics that have puzzled scientists for decades. Gathering information about fundamental