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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its closest approach to the sun

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NASA 's Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale.

The spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24 .

It came within 6.1 million kilometers of the sun, beating its own 2023 record of 7.26 million kilometers .

At the time of closest approach, the spacecraft was also the fastest object ever made by humans.

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