Jan 25, 2022
NASA’s Spacecraft Sent to “Touch the Sun” Snaps First Image from “Inside” Sun’s Atmosphere
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: materials, space
The photograph was captured by the probe’s WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument when the spacecraft traveled at a distance of 16.9 million miles from the sun, inside our star’s corona.
The image shows distinct jets of solar material, dubbed coronal streamers, seen to the left/center of the image.
The bright spot you see in the above image is Mercury.