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Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling at an incredible 430,000 miles per hour - faster than any human-made object ...

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Learn what the first maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary reveal about solar wind and its escape into space.

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The Sun exhibited unpredictable behavior with two strong solar flares in late November and early December 2025. These events, ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...