Nerd Alert - NASA has "touched" the sun....

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this is honestly some of the coolest shit....

www.nasa.gov

NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the First Time

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.
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Dang... the atmosphere of the Sun itself is 5 million miles at least

www.space.com

Giant Waves Reveal Surprising True Size of Sun's Atmosphere

The sun's volatile atmosphere is even bigger than scientists expected, a NASA spacecraft has revealed. The space agency's STEREO satellite found that the solar atmosphere, known as the corona, stretch
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