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The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun

(arstechnica.com)
164 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 20 Dec 24 11:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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dreamcompiler ◴[21 Dec 24 04:18 UTC] No.42477518[source]▶
Imagine the Sun as a ball 1 mile in diameter. If you flew a probe by the Sun that never got closer than 4 miles away (4 diameters) would you describe it as "into the Sun?"

Neither would I.

Sure, it's close enough to get very hot. But it's not into the sun.

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1. ozim ◴[21 Dec 24 13:44 UTC] No.42479629[source]▶
I would argue that is also most “into the sun” we can reasonably get.