Astronomy Picture of the Day<p>APOD from 2025-03-31</p><p>Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun</p><p>NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured a time-lapse from inside <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/Mercury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercury</span></a>'s orbit, showing coronal streamers, a Coronal Mass Ejection, and <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/planets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>planets</span></a> like Mercury and <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/Venus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Venus</span></a>. Between <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Earth</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/Comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comet</span></a> Tempel 1 appears. The video also shows high-energy solar particles. This data helps us understand space weather impacts on Earth.</p><p>Video at <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250331.html#space" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250331.ht</span><span class="invisible">ml#space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/saturn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>saturn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/jupiter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jupiter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/eclipse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eclipse</span></a></p>