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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-11 00:56:24

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun in December 2024, NASA’s #ParkerSolarProbe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere: youtube.com/watch?v=k1dTwEyuD4 -> science.nasa.gov/science-resea - these newly released images, taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever been before, are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth.

@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.social
2025-08-27 14:48:31

#ParkerSolarProbe was in the right place at the right time in September 2022: It passed through a magnetic reconnection region in the Sun's corona. #SolarOrbiter observed the event from a distance. Study led by

EUI image of solar corona showing the flare on September 5th/6th, 2022. The image is split into one large frame to the left and two smaller frames on the top and bottom to the right. The left frame shows a full-scale image of the Sun, in predominantly yellow false-color images against a black background. The solar surface appears strongly structured, with a particularly bright region on its lower right part. The two smaller frames are zooms onto this region at different times, as indicated by t…