On its record-breaking pass by the sun late last year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the sun's atmosphere. These newly released images—taken closer to the sun than we've ever been before—are helping scientists better understand the sun's influence across the solar system,

Scientists are using the images and data collected by the probe to understand the sun’s impact on Earth and the solar system.

Cameras on the ground need strong solar filters to photograph things like an eclipse, yet NASA has made a camera that was capable of flying through the sun’s corona without melting – and it just published its first close-up images.