NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this grand prospect of Earth swimming in a sea of stars over the course of ten days in April 2019. Earth is the first bright round spot that shows up before the Milky Way is seen. The Moon was too close to Earth to be resolved. The background star near Earth is Spica.

Mercury is seen in transit across the Milky Way core. Venus is the very bright spot at the end. Jupiter is also seen just before Mercury appears while Saturn is in the background. The stripes are interstellar dust hitting the camera sensor shield. By the time Parker Solar Probe imaged Venus it was traveling at 95km/s (~213,000mph).

A wind of fast moving particles blows out from our Sun, and although space transmits sound poorly, particle impact and variable-field data from NASA's near-Sun Parker Solar Probe is being translated into sound. The audio track recounts several of these reverberations, including Langmuir Waves, Whistler Mode Waves, and Dispersive Chirping Waves.

Music courtesy of Max Richter.