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In fact, they are. A space probe, "New Horizons", is already underway to Pluto. I don't remember the name of the mission to the Sun, but there is one, either traveling or being planned. Being as hot as it is, it won't exactly go into the Sun, but much closer than the 150M km. that Earth is from the Sun.

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In fact, there are several space probes orbiting the Sun now. A couple of them are in polar orbits around the Sun, giving us a view of the Sun that we could never see from Earth, and a couple of them are 6o degrees away from the Earth in our orbit so that we can see "around" the Sun to see if there are any major flares or sunspots that are out of the view of Earth-based telescopes.

Of course, we can't send probes TO the Sun, because the probes would be destroyed - but we don't have to be really close to get a good view!

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