Here the Parker Solar Probe captures the solar wind streaming out from the Sun. It is reasonable to hope that in a not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. On August 12, 2018, the man – then still very much alive – stood and watched as the Parker Solar Probe soared into the heavens. His calculations showed that a stream of particles must be constantly blowing off it, forming a fluctuating breeze he dubbed the solar wind. So too do questions about the origins of the solar wind, and the reasons why enormous flares occasionally burst out from its surface.