Source: Axios
“NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make history during a flight around the Sun on Christmas Eve. ‘No human-made object has ever passed this close to a star, so Parker will truly be returning data from uncharted territory,’ said Nick Pinkine, Parker Solar Probe mission operations manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland, in a statement. … Parker became in 2018 the first spacecraft to enter the Sun’s corona, the outermost part of the star’s atmosphere that can be seen during a total solar eclipse.” (12/23/24)
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/23/nasas-parker-solar-probe-sun-closest-point