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A well-fortified NASA spacecraft flew through, and survived, an immense explosion from the sun. Scientists recently released rare footage of this solar event, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, ...

The Parker Space Probe is described by NASA as being "about the size of a small car," and its only goal is to fly as close to the sun as possible to try to unravel some solar mysteries. What exactly ...