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Link to the (incredible) footage captured
Judging by the video quality, I'm just going to assume NASA just used a giant catapult to fling a Nokia 3310 at the sun
I'm no expert, but I assume it's a highly specialized camera where the image quality wasn't the priority.
That's exactly what I said tho
Ah. I thought you meant the video quality was bad. But yea the space probe is probably indestructible
That is so cool! Any insight into what is transmitting the sound being picked up by the mics? Is there just enough material surrounding the probe to pick up the shock wave?
It sounds like space wind
That’s fire yo
No its plasma
That’s plasma yo
The Sun is a mass
of incandescent gas
a gigantic nuclear furnace!
Is that the Milky Way at 0.22?... Wow!
I thought that too when I saw it. But I believe the Parker solar probe only looks at the sun. That was probably a huge disruption on the surface of the sun, similar to the little spots that are seen before and after, but on a much larger scale.
Could that have been the site of the eruption that caused the plume that the probe flew through?