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Parker Probe's Historic Plunge Toward Sun

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe phones home after surviving historic close sun flyby. It's alive!

The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas Eve.

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe completes historic Christmas Eve flyby of the sun — but it could take days to know if it survived

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any human-made object ever — a stunning technological feat that scientists liken to the historic Apollo moon landing in 1969.

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Scientists await signal from NASA's Parker Solar Probe after historic close sun flyby. Will it phone home?

On the heels of a NASA spacecraft's historic close flyby of the sun on Christmas Eve, scientists on Earth have one question on their minds: Did their probe survive as an epic Christmas gift, or is it a burned up lump of coal in space?

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe whizzes within 3.8 million miles of sun, setting a record

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, coming closer to the fiery star than any other ...

This Christmas Eve, humans will try to embrace a star

"In 1969, we landed humans on the moon on Christmas Eve; in 2024, we are going to embrace a star," Nour Raouafi, project ...

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