Stunning New Images Show The Face of The Sun Like We've Never Seen It Before
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 4:32 pm
Stunning New Images Show The Face of The Sun Like We've Never Seen It Before
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A new portrait from the world's most powerful solar telescope has captured the face of our Sun in exquisite detail.
Up close and personal to the giant star, at a resolution of just 18 kilometers, the middle layer of the Sun's atmosphere, known as the chromosphere, looks almost like a shag rug.
Close-up of the Sun's chromosphere.
Photo: A slice of the Sun's chromosphere in high-resolution, showing hair-like jets of plasma. (NSO/AURA/NSF)
Bright hairs of fiery plasma can be seen in the image above, flowing into the corona from a sort of honeycomb-like pattern of pores, more easily visualized in the image below. These blistering blobs are known as granules, and each is about 1,600 kilometers (994 miles) wide.
https://www.sciencealert.com/stunning-n ... -it-before
A new portrait from the world's most powerful solar telescope has captured the face of our Sun in exquisite detail.
Up close and personal to the giant star, at a resolution of just 18 kilometers, the middle layer of the Sun's atmosphere, known as the chromosphere, looks almost like a shag rug.
Close-up of the Sun's chromosphere.
Photo: A slice of the Sun's chromosphere in high-resolution, showing hair-like jets of plasma. (NSO/AURA/NSF)
Bright hairs of fiery plasma can be seen in the image above, flowing into the corona from a sort of honeycomb-like pattern of pores, more easily visualized in the image below. These blistering blobs are known as granules, and each is about 1,600 kilometers (994 miles) wide.