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

A Nasa spacecraft will fly closer to the Sun than any human-made object has before with two carbon fibre panels and 4.5in of carbon foam for protection. The Parker Solar Probe was scheduled to reach 3.8 million miles from the Sun at 11.53 GMT on Christmas Eve, which is 96 per cent of the mean distance from the Earth to our star. It will fly by at a…