How Close Can You Get To The Sun?

How close could you get to the sun using today s spacesuits or spaceships? Find out in today s episode of SciShow Space! Annotation: Diving Into the Sun https://youtu.be/sZXj68iWjhA ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn t make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Justin Lentz, David Campos, Chris Peters, Philippe von Bergen, Fatima Iqbal, John Murrin, Linnea Boyev, and Kathy & Tim Philip. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/SciShow Or help support us by becoming our patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Sources: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-a-spacesuit-58.html, https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q8406.html http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/how-close-could-person-get-sun-and-survive http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~davidc/ATMS211/Lecture12-handout-PDF.pdf, http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19650014514.pdf, http://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/properties-of-sunlight/solar-radiation-outside-earths-atmosphere, http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/emissivity-coefficients-d_447.html, http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/radiation-surface-absorptivity-d_1805.html, http://www.mrscienceshow.com/2010/09/how-close-could-average-spaceship-get.html http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a10732/can-we-protect-mars-explorers-from-deadly-cosmic-radiation-16887969/ http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/7827/whats-the-typical-temperature-of-a-satellite-orbiting-the-earth\ http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/5246/why-is-gold-used-in-space-technology-to-protection-from-heat-radiation Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pennsylvania_Winter_Sunset.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ruwenpflanzen.jpg http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts121/multimedia/fd9/fd9_gallery.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_prominence_on_the_sun_erupted.jpg http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts122/main/sts122missionfeature_prt.htm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_10_Lunar_Module.jpg