What Do You Learn When You Touch the Sun?

Though our Sun is something we can count on to rise and set each day, it also comes with some phenomena that can catch us by surprise: solar winds. To better predict when these winds will travel all the way to Earth, we sent the Parker Solar Probe to our big flaming ball in the sky with a big mission. Hosted By: Hank Green RIP Dr Eugene N Parker, NASA Visionary, June 10, 1927 — March 15, 2022 ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: Jason A Saslow and David Brooks! Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowSpace Or by checking out our awesome space pins and other products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe-humanity-s-first-visit-to-a-star https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-time-bringing-new-discoveries https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6908744/ https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/news-articles/effects-of-the-solar-wind#:~:text=She%20explains%20in%20more%20detail,which%20can%20result%20in%20turbulence.%E2%80%9D https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/coronal-holes https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.255101 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab5b15 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4653 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/parkersolarprobe_presskit_august2018_final.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-015-0211-6 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/cutting-edge-heat-shield-installed-on-nasa-s-parker-solar-probe https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2d8c Image Sources: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13003 Thumbnail Credit: APL/NASA GSFC https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/the-sun-in-deep-space-stock-footage/1321472148?adppopup=true https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12329 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twB62NYsaIg&t=66s https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parker_Solar_Probe.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Wind_(Principle_of_Auroras).jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13506 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/spaceweather/index.html https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14045 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13484 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sun_by_the_Atmospheric_Imaging_Assembly_of_NASA%27s_Solar_Dynamics_Observatory_-_20100819.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-time-bringing-new-discoveries https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sun_as_seen_in_January_1st_2015.jpg https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/522/10-things-to-know-about-parker-solar-probe/