Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
On its record-breaking pass by the Sun in December 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever been before — are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth.
Learn more: science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-snaps-closest-ever-images-to-sun
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Producer: Joy Ng (eMITS)
Scientist: Nour Rawafi (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab)
Videographer: John Philyaw (eMITS), Lacey Young (eMITS)
Music credits: “Up There” by Alexandre Prodhomme [SACEM]; “Temporal Shift” by Alessandro Rizzo [PRS] and Elliot Greenway Ireland; “Micro Life” by Peter Larsen [PRS]; “Hope and Relief” by Eddy Pradelles [SACEM] via Universal Production Music
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On its record-breaking pass by the Sun in December 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever been before — are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth.
Learn more: science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-snaps-closest-ever-images-to-sun
Video credit: NASA
Producer: Joy Ng (eMITS)
Scientist: Nour Rawafi (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab)
Videographer: John Philyaw (eMITS), Lacey Young (eMITS)
Music credits: “Up There” by Alexandre Prodhomme [SACEM]; “Temporal Shift” by Alessandro Rizzo [PRS] and Elliot Greenway Ireland; “Micro Life” by Peter Larsen [PRS]; “Hope and Relief” by Eddy Pradelles [SACEM] via Universal Production Music
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14865. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14865. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines.
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASAGoddard
Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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· Flickr: flickr.com/photos/gsfc
