US EditionNew Views of Sun Reveal Stunning Plasma ‘Raindrops’
- Researchers deployed a new system called Cona within California's Goode Solar Telescope to obtain highly detailed images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona.
- This setup was implemented following the creation of coronal adaptive optics technology that continuously modifies a mirror thousands of times each second to correct distortions caused by the Earth's atmosphere.
- Cona greatly enhanced the ability to capture detailed images of solar features such as plasma "raindrops" and dynamic magnetic prominences, achieving clarity at spatial scales down to 63 kilometers.
- Vasyl Yurchyshyn described these as the most detailed observations ever, while Dirk Schmidt called the advancement a "game-changer" for solar physics.
- Scientists hope these high-resolution observations will help resolve how the corona heats and how solar eruptions occur, suggesting a new era of discovery is emerging.
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New Imaging Technique Shows the Sun as a Swirling Pink Liquid
A swirling sea of pink, where fluffy tufts float majestically upward, while elsewhere violet plumes rain down from above. This is the Sun as seen in groundbreaking new images — and they're unlike anything you've ever laid eyes on. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists have leveraged new coronal adaptive optics tech to bypass the blurriness caused by the turbulence of the Earth's atmosphere, a time-old o…
Scientists Capture Sharpest Images Ever of Sun's Corona
Scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Solar Observatory (NSO) and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) used groundbreaking adaptive optics to capture sharpest ever photos and videos of the Sun's corona, the outermost layer of its atmosphere.
Clearest images of sun's atmosphere yet show coronal rain and dancing plasma
New images that are the highest resolution ever taken of the surface of the sun and its corona are revealing details that have never been seen before. These stunning pictures will help scientists solve mysteries about how storms on the sun develop.
Scientists have succeeded for the first time in taking razor-sharp images of the sun's corona, the outer atmosphere. Until now, it was not possible to get a good picture of the phenomena that take place there. With a new optical system that corrects for blurring, we can now see breathtaking photos and videos.
A Clear View of the Sun’s Fireworks
Above our heads churns a fiery furnace: The sun roils and boils, with streaks of plasma shooting thousands of miles from its surface and falling back like molten rain. But detailed observations of the ceaseless activity in the sun’s atmosphere, called its corona, have been impossible to collect from Earth, except during solar eclipses. Until now. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Astronomers recently recorded th…
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