Science Fiction Plus Oct 1953: Spaceship Skims the Sun Cover by Frank R. Paul

A sleek, dart-shaped spacecraft blazes dangerously close to the roiling surface of the Sun, corona erupting in brilliant white and crimson tendrils as if the star itself recoils from the intrusion. This is the moment of maximum peril — the ship either executing a daring gravitational brake maneuver or careening out of control. The spacecraft's streamlined form, rendered in cool silver-blue, contrasts violently with the churning solar plasma below, embodying Hugo Gernsback's vision of bold atomic-age exploration.