Updates from the Sun: Parker Solar Probe and the April 2024 Great American Eclipse

2024 is NASA’s “Heliophysics Big Year,” and there is a huge amount going on with the Sun to keep up with! Join Dr. Samuel Badman, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, to discuss new and upcoming scientific breakthroughs being made by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (humanity’s mission to “touch the Sun”), look at the April 8th solar eclipse, and learn what it means to be nearing the peak of Solar Cycle 25 (i.e., solar maximum). This was recorded on March 21, 2024.

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