November 23, 2024

Watch ‘coronal streamers’ streak off the sun in close-up video from Parker Solar Probe

“The new NASA video from the Parker Solar Probe shows these mystical sun structures up close for the very first time, streaming past the spacecraft like interstellar fireflies. A star trip from the inside outThese 9 images show coronal banners on the sun, brilliant structures in the suns corona typically seen only in solar eclipses, as found by NASAs Parker Solar Probe as it flew through the suns external environment. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory)Parker is on a bigger quest to much better comprehend solar physics, and particularly how the solar wind is created.