90: Touching The Sun
Episode description
While the James Webb Space Telescope waits patiently for its new scheduled liftoff on Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe has been doing amazing things, whizzing through the outer edges of the Sun's corona for the very first time. Emily explains what we do — and staggeringly don't — know about our nearest star, and how Parker is going to help plug some of the more embarrassing gaps in our knowledge.
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Things we talk about in this episode:
JWST still set for launch
The Photosphere
The Chromosphere
The Corona
The Carrington Event of 1859
Parker touches the Sun!
First images from inside the corona (feat. Milky Way!)