Jan 292020
 

Surprisingly, this has nothing to do with the space amoebas from Star Trek. That I am aware of, anyway…

NSF’s Newest Solar Telescope Produces First Images

This new solar telescope can see details as small as 30 kilometers on the surface of the sun. And while the still images are interesting, it’s the video that’s really interesting. What appears to be data dropout or some sort of glitch in the image are actually intensely bright little regions of high magnetic activity between the convection cells.

https://www.aura-astronomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/DKIST-First-Light-MZ-crop1-loop_FHD-H264.mov

 

 

 

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