Parker Solar Probe just showed us what the Sun looks like from only 3.8 million miles away. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has captured the closest-ever images of the Sun – revealing powerful new insights into one of the most mysterious forces in our solar system: the solar wind. These stunning new images were taken from inside the Sun’s atmosphere, or corona, where temperatures soar and magnetic fields twist and snap. What the spacecraft saw was extraordinary – a dynamic storm of charged particles b

Three years after its launch, the Parker Solar Probe made its first passage through the sun's upper atmosphere. In 2018, we got a behind-the-scenes look at how NASA engineers built the probe to survive the tremendously hot journey. | NPR