Researchers from NASA and NOAA confirmed that the Sun has reached its maximum solar cycle, expected to last another year. This phase increases solar activity, affecting space weather, satellite operations, and communication systems, with the Parker Solar Probe mission providing valuable data on solar storms.| AZoQuantum
NASA and NOAA said this week that the sun has officially reached Solar Maximum, the peak of its 11-year cycle. NASA heliophysicist C. Alex Young and EarthSky’s founder Deborah Byrd talked about it on this week’s Friday livestream, our Sun News of the Week. Watch in the player above, or on YouTube.| EarthSky
On a mission to “touch the Sun,” NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona – the Sun’s upper atmosphere – in 2021. With every orbit, the probe faces brutal heat and radiation to provide humanity with unprecedented observations of the only star we can study up close.| science.nasa.gov