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

We've been studying the Sun from afar for decades, and now we're going where the action is. Parker Solar Probe launches this summer to get closer to the Sun than any spacecraft has ever gone. Throughout its seven-year mission, its four suites of instruments will send back invaluable data that will help scientists answer foundational questions about the Sun, like: Why is the Sun's corona so much hotter than its surface? How is the solar wind accelerated to supersonic speeds? And what drives solar

In case you missed it, yesterday we launched our mission to “touch” the Sun! Throughout its seven-year mission, our Parker #SolarProbe spacecraft will swoop through the Sun’s atmosphere 24 times, getting closer than any spacecraft has gone before. Learn more about this mission to fly directly through the Sun’s corona: www.nasa.gov/parker | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Solar System🌞✨🌎✨🌝 #solarsystem #SolarSystemModel #solarenergy #SolarEnergySavings ☺ | The Physicist

Welcome home astronaut Scott Kelly! Your #YearInSpace helps ensure humans are “go” for deep space missions and our #JourneyToMars. | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

163K views · 3.8K reactions | What happened this week @NASA? One-year mission astronaut Scott Kelly was congratulated by our Administrator Charlie Bolden, Kelly’s twin brother and former astronaut Mark, and White House science advisor John Holdren. Also, a super typhoon seen from space, asteroid mission milestone, and more. Watch and discover! | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook