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The U.S. National Science Foundationfrom the Inouye Solar Telescope to mark a year since its inauguration. They are the first close-up images the telescope has captured of the Sun's chromosphere, a layer of the star's atmosphere located beneath the corona.
The mesmerizing images show the Sun's surface in incredible detail, captured at a resolution of 18 kilometers.The images reveal the fiery plumes of the Sun's chromosphere in impressive detail. The bright hair-like plumes are fiery plasma flowing into the Sun's corona, the outermost part of its atmosphere. Incredibly, each of the images released by the National Science Foundation is about 82,500 kilometers wide, meaning they show less than ten percent of the Sun's total diameter.
The image below shows solar granules, which are the result of convection currents of plasma in the Sun's convective zone, directly below the photosphere, the lowest layer of the Sun's atmosphere. Each granule in the image is about 1,600 kilometers wide. The image also includes an overlaid picture of the Earth to scale to illustrate how enormous these granules are.Source:The Inouye Solar Telescope has allowed us to peer into the Sun with more detail than ever before.
Indeed, we are currently at the most active part of the Sun's regular 11-year cycle, and experts have raised concerns that solar storms
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