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NASA flew into the sun's atmosphere - and saw something disturbing

NASA's Parker Solar Probe ventured closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history, entering the outer atmosphere of our ...
Mashable

NASA's tough spacecraft dives into the sun's atmosphere, captures wild footage

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured the inside of the sun's corona. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Naval Research Laboratory What a scene. For the first time, a spacecraft has entered the sun's ...
Gizmodo

Could We Actually Launch a Supervillain Into the Sun?

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect. Reading time 4 minutes Editor’s note: This article is a lighthearted and ...
Wired

A Spacecraft Is About to Fly Into the Sun’s Atmosphere for the First Time

Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore. Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when it launched. It is, after all, the fastest-moving object that humans have ever built. At ...
Popular Science

We can’t launch our trash into the sun. But why?

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Labroots

What Would Happen if We Sent a Spacecraft Into the Sun?

In 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe to get our closest look at the Sun yet. The probe gets as close as about 6.2 million kilometers from the Sun’s surface; but have you ever wondered what ...
New Scientist

Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?

The sun is the centre of our solar system, the parent body to all the planets, unquestionably the most important cosmic object for life on Earth. But what if we were to destroy it? It turns out that ...