On December 4th 2019, NASA announced that its Parker Solar Probe has begun to send back data about the sun. Passing within 15 million miles, the Parker Solar Probe has become the first spacecraft from Earth to fly so close. The first findings sent back by the probe have revealed activity going on within the sun's atmosphere, or corona. The data has shown that there are reversals in the sun's electromagnetic fields and anomalies occurring in the particle that make up the solar winds.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe was launched in August of 2018. It was built to withstand temperatures of more than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
