Solar Corona - Blog Posts

Earlier this year [~April 2021], the Parker Solar Probe passed through the Sun's corona, roughly 6.47 million miles from the Sun's surface, flying through structures called streamers, which are essentially waves of solar plasma. Until now, the streamers have only been seen from afar, mostly during Solar Eclipses.

Additionally the video depicts flybys of the following (in order): Mercury, Venus, The Milky Way, Saturn, Earth and Jupiter, with the latter overtaking earth toward the end of this sequence.

The next solar flyby will be happening in January 2022, bringing the probe roughly 3.83 million miles from the surface of the Sun. Earth, by comparison, orbits the Sun 93 million miles away. (HQ Footage)

This is gorgeous like white fire or wings around the moon.