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 of the sun. While NASA has shared images from the solar probe before, the close flight enabled Parker to capture the closest ever photos and videos of the sun, shared earlier this month.
