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Parker Solar Probe: Sun-skimming mission starts calling home
By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
7 hours ago
NASA/NRL/PARKER SOLAR PROBE
Parker took this image of a streamer, a dense part of the corona, on 8 November
Just weeks after making the closest ever flyby of the Sun, Nasa's Parker Solar Probe is sending back its data.
Included in the observations is this remarkable image of the energetic gas, or plasma, flowing out from the star.
The bright dot is actually far-distant Jupiter. The black dots are repeats that occur simply because of the way the picture is constructed.
Parker's WISPR instrument acquired the vista just 27.2 million km from the surface of the Sun on 8 November.
More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46547588
