Illustration of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe
In less than two weeks, a spacecraft will pass through the atmosphere of our nearest star as part of its mission to 鈥渢ouch鈥 the sun.
鈥淥n Christmas Eve of this year, the Parker Solar Probe will be the closest human-made object ever to a star,鈥 at Johns Hopkins University said at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC on 10 December. 鈥淲e are at the moment we鈥檝e been waiting for for nearly 60 years.鈥
