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Nasa spacecraft flies closer to the Sun than any man-made object has before

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The Parker Solar Probe was scheduled to reach 3.8 million miles from the Sun at 11.53 GMT on Christmas Eve .

It will fly by at a record-breaking 430,000mph the equivalent of flying from London to New York in less than 30 seconds .

Probe will have to endure temperatures of around 1,400C the temperature at which carbon steel and nickel start to melt.