Now, NASA has released remarkable video captured during the historic flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever recorded. The new images were captured with Parker's Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR, revealing a never-before-seen view of the sun's corona and solar winds shortly after they are released from the corona.

From one perspective, the Sun is a benevolent orb of plasma and its warmth makes Earth habitable and has kept it habitable for billions of years, allowing complex things like human beings to evolve.