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Ep. 628: The Sun Revisited

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The Parker Solar Probe Is Getting Ready to Start Its Next Perihelion Run

The parker solar probe is getting ready to start its next perihelion run into the sun. It's expected that to day it's going to rotate to have its heat shield into the sun, so that you can go and check out what temperature it's at  at the e sit. And again, they're rounding airs. They are a tiny amount of matter compared to the mass of the sun, the mass ofof the atoms in the sun, and yet we can detect them. And they were predicted and then they were detected. And that's how science works.

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