But for us humans, it's "just right." In the past decades, NASA and its international partners have launched an armada of spacecraft which work with telescopes on Earth to understand our Sun as never before.

Future plans include probes to fly into the Sun, and out of our solar system into interstellar space.

http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spd/solar_probe.html
Solar Probe Mission

http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/
IMAGE Home Page: scheduled to be launched February 2000

http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/future.html
ISTP Future Missions