Christmas will be warm and bright for one NASA mission this year.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will swoop toward the fiery surface of the sun on Christmas Eve, traveling closer to the massive star than any human-made object has before.
Parker is on course to zoom just 3.8 million miles from the sun’s surface at about 430,000 mph, cutting through plumes of plasma while circling it on Tuesday morning, the space agency said in a statement
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