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A NASA probe nearly touched the Sun — and found out a lot about solar weather.
The Parker Solar Probe flew through a coronal mass ejection in 2021, finding clues that are helping to unravel the mystery of space weather.
During a 2021 encounter with the Sun, NASA’s solar probe captured a coronal mass ejection (CME), an explosive outburst of high energy radiation, in unprecedented detail. As the probe flew through a powerful CME for the first time, it caught a glimpse of turbulent fluids indicative of a rare phenomenon that physicists have long believed occurs on the Sun but were never able to observe. The solar probe uses Venus as a gravity assist to gradually shrink its orbit around the Sun, with each stellar close encounter lasting for around 12 days.
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