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Solar Parker Probe

  • The Solar Parker Probe blasts off from Cape Canaveral
    Astronomy
    World-first solar probe en route to "touch the Sun"
    ​The origin’s of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission can be traced back to a paper published 60 years ago by astrophysicist Eugene Parker, describing high speed matter emanating from the center of our solar system. Today the spacecraft carrying his name lifted off and is now en route to the Sun.