NASA, Christmas

The daring NASA spacecraft made its closest-ever approach to the sun at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT) on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).
NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get closer to the sun than ever before. Astrophysicist Nour Rawafi explains how this mission could help solve the sun's most perplexing mysteries.
A new image resembling a Christmas wreath captures young stars lighting up dense, dark clouds of dust. The image features NGC 602, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy to the ...
The Parker probe was launched in 2018 as part of NASA’s Living With a Star program with the aim of “touching” the sun. It has ...
"These X-rays are powered by winds flowing from the young, massive stars that are sprinkled throughout the cluster," NASA ...
A NASA spacecraft is about to give astronomers an epic early Christmas present with the closest ever flyby of the sun on Dec.
NASA received a beacon tone from Parker Solar Probe on Dec. 27, 2024, after the spacecraft emerged from behind the sun three ...
The Parker Solar Probe came within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface travelling at 430,000 miles per hour, according to ...