Scientists have released the closest images ever to the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.

On its record-breaking pass by the sun late last year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the sun's atmosphere. These newly released images—taken closer to the sun than we've ever been before—are helping scientists better understand the sun's influence across the solar system,

Jaw-dropping new images are the closest ever taken to the Sun. The latest close-ups, unveiled Thursday (10 July), were captured just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. They reveal details within the solar wind—a relentless flow of electrically charged subatomic particles unleashed by the Sun that races through the solar system at speeds over