صور جديدة تكشف مناظر مذهلة من مهمّة ناسا لـ"ملامسة الشمس"

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كشفت وكالة الفضاء الأمريكية "ناسا" عن أقرب صور تم التقاطها لطبقات الغلاف الجوي للشمس. وتستعرض جاكي واتلز، كاتبة في قسم الفضاء والعلوم لدى CNN، ما يمكن أن توفره هذه الصور من معرفة للعلماء.

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00:00NASA just released these images of the sun's atmosphere showing the Parker Solar Probe's recent flyby of our host star.

00:08It skimmed just 3.8 million miles from the surface of the sun.

00:12That's more than 20 million miles closer than any spacecraft has traveled before.

00:17During this pass, the probe was immersed in the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere, called the corona, where solar wind is born.

00:24And the mission captured previously unseen details of the coronal material as it blasts out into space.

00:30So what does it show? There's a few things, actually, but let's focus on just one.

00:35Here you can see the collision of three large outbursts of solar material, called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.

00:43When these powerful eruptions reach Earth, they can trigger beautiful auroras.

00:48They can also pose serious risks to satellites, power grids, and even subject astronauts to dangerous levels of radiation.

00:55But capturing coronal activity at such remarkably close range, and in high resolution, can help scientists better understand these phenomena.

01:04And that gives them game-changing new insights into solar winds and the precarious space weather that they create.

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