NASA's probe successfully completes closest approach to the sun

According to Amac News: The spacecraft flew just 6.1 million kilometers from the Sun's surface on December 24, passing through the Sun's outer atmosphere, known as the "corona," to help scientists gather more information about the nearest star to Earth.
The agency stated that the operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland received a signal—a beacon sound—from the probe shortly before midnight on Thursday.
The spacecraft is expected to send back more precise telemetry data about its status on January 1.
Traveling at speeds of up to 692,000 kilometers per hour, the probe has withstood temperatures reaching up to 982 degrees Celsius
NASA stated, "This close study of the Sun allows the Parker Probe to make measurements that help scientists better understand how material in this region reaches millions of degrees, track the origin of the solar wind (a continuous stream of material escaping from the Sun), and discover how energetic particles accelerate to nearly the speed of light."
The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 and has gradually moved closer to the Sun, using close flybys of Venus to tighten its orbit around the Sun.