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The Best of Our Knowledge

The Best Of Our Knowledge

Monarch butterflies and a solar probe

By Lucas Willard

Published December 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM EST

Parker Solar Probe sits inside a clean room at the Astrotech spacecraft processing facility in Titusville, Florida.

On Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make the closest approach to the sun ever. We’ll learn about the science behind the mission.

And the Fish and Wildlife Service wants to place the monarch butterfly on the Endangered Species List.

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Lucas Willard

Lucas Willard is a news reporter and host at WAMC Northeast Public Radio, which he joined in 2011. He produces and hosts The Best of Our Knowledge and WAMC Listening Party.

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