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NASA's Parker Solar Probe phones home after surviving historic close sun flyby. It's alive!


The spacecraft made the closest ever flyby of the sun on Christmas Eve, flying within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun."

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