Did you see it from your house? The first NASA mission to ‘touch’ our sun is underway after a dramatic early morning launch. The Parker Solar Probe is now racing through space on a path that will eventually bring it within 4 million miles of the sun’s surface. MORE: https://bit.ly/2P3I9an | FOX 13 News - Tampa Bay

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In a move no one expected, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe just made a daring attempt to pass through the glowing tail of 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar comet racing toward the Sun. What happened next left scientists completely speechless. As the probe entered the region near Atlas’s plasma tail, its instruments detected strange energy spikes, magnetic turbulence, and bursts of radiation that have never been recorded before. The data feed even went silent for several minutes — and when it came back online

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331K views · 2.9K shares | In case you missed it, yesterday we launched our mission to “touch” the Sun! Throughout its seven-year mission, our Parker #SolarProbe spacecraft will swoop through the Sun’s atmosphere 24 times, getting closer than any spacecraft has gone before. Learn more about this mission to fly directly through the Sun’s corona: www.nasa.gov/parker | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook