Highest_resolution_photo_of_Sun_(NSF)_as_of_January_20,_2020.jpg
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Summary
Description Highest resolution photo of Sun (NSF) as of January 20, 2020.jpg |
English:
This image at the time of publication is the highest resolution image of the sun's surface ever taken, at 789 nanometers (nm). Features as small as 30km (18 miles) in size are observable for the first time. The image shows a pattern of turbulence of solar plasma, a super-heated gas. The cell-like structures, each about the size of Texas (approximately 700'000km
2
), are the signature of a dynamic activity of heat from the inside of the sun to its surface. The solar material rising in the bright centers of “cells" then sinks becoming a darker less-hot material by convection. The smaller brighter (intercell) areas with the darker areas are indications of magnetic fields, thought to channel energy that becomes the outer layers of the solar atmosphere which is the corona
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Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope |
Author | NSO / AURA / NSF |
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This file, which was originally posted to
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