Finally NASA touched the SUN. Yes, NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) has "touched" the sun, making it the first spacecraft to do so: Closest approach On December 24, 2024, PSP flew 3.8 million miles above the sun's surface, breaking its previous record. It traveled at 430,000 miles per hour, faster than any human-made object. | Life Boat Science Academy

WATCH: NASA shared a mesmerizing one-minute time-lapse video of the sun made up of images captured by its Solar Dynamics Observatory over a decade. | CBS News

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory released breathtaking close-up footage of solar flares, revealing the Sun as a complex network of blazing plasma loops and turbulent magnetic fields. The new video captures dark filaments cutting across bright, twisting arcs as massive bursts of energy erupt and constantly reshape in real time. To appreciate the scale: the Sun spans about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter, roughly 109 times the size of Earth. What may appear as tiny sparks in the footage are a