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A camera flew through the sun’s corona, didn’t melt, and sent back these first-ever close-ups of the sun

A camera flew through the sun’s corona, didn’t melt, and sent back these first-ever close-ups of the sun

Cameras on the ground need strong solar filters to photograph things like an eclipse, yet NASA has made a camera that was capable of flying through the sun’s corona without melting – and it just published its first close-up images. The Parker Solar Probe passed through the sun’s corona late last year, coming within 3.8 million miles from the surface …

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