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One the most counter-intuitive facts about the solar system is that the hardest place to visit is the Sun. It takes less energy (delta-V) to send a probe on its way to Alpha-Centuri than to the sun.
Can you expand? Is it just because close proximity to the sun is so hostile? Takes more fuel to counter the sun’s “headwind?”
I don’t want to talk over the original comment, but I believe they were speaking specifically of delta-v, which is ‘change in velocity’. So you have to burn more fuel to visit the sun than you need to go the other way and leave the solar system.
You are correct, that is what they meant
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