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The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii captured the clearest images ever of a solar flare, revealing unprecedented details of coronal loops that could revolutionize our understanding of the Sun's magnetic structure and improve space weather predictions.
The NSF Inouye Solar Telescope captured its first X-class solar flare in unprecedented detail, revealing structures like tiny coronal loops at scales as small as 21 kilometers, providing new insights into the Sun's most energetic eruptions and magnetic reconnection processes.
The Daniel F. Inouye Solar Telescope has captured the smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's corona, revealing details that could help understand the mechanisms behind solar flares. These tiny loops, some as narrow as 13 miles, were observed during a powerful X-class flare, providing new insights into solar magnetic activity. However, funding cuts threaten the telescope's future, risking loss of valuable solar research and expertise.
NASA's new mini solar telescope, CODEX, attached to the ISS, has captured unprecedented images revealing subtle fluctuations in the sun's outer atmosphere, including temperature variations and coronal streamers, which could improve understanding of solar wind and space weather prediction.
The Milky Way galaxy is beautifully visible over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, showcasing the galaxy's milky appearance and the historic McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope, which was recently retired after decades of solar research.
The NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured the sharpest images of the sun's surface, revealing ultra-fine magnetic 'curtains' or striations in the photosphere, which are signatures of subtle magnetic fluctuations crucial for understanding solar phenomena like flares and eruptions.
Scientists used the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope to capture highly detailed images of the Sun's surface, revealing ultra-fine magnetic stripes called striations that are about 12 miles wide, providing new insights into the Sun's magnetic fields and their role in space weather phenomena.
Researchers captured the most detailed images of the sun's corona, revealing pink 'raindrops' of cooling plasma, using advanced adaptive optics technology at the Big Bear Solar Observatory, providing new insights into solar phenomena.
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy have developed deep learning models to analyze data from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest ground-based solar telescope. This AI-driven approach aims to enhance the speed and accuracy of solar data analysis, potentially leading to breakthroughs in understanding solar phenomena like large solar storms. The project, part of the SPIn4D initiative, uses neural networks to simulate and analyze the sun's atmosphere in near real-time, offering a significant advancement in solar research.
The Celestron EclipSmart Travel Solar Scope 50 is an affordable and travel-friendly solar telescope with a built-in white light filter, making it safe and easy to observe the sun's surface, including sunspots. It comes with a backpack and offers up to 18x magnification. While the tripod is wobbly and the build quality is plastic, it provides crisp images of the solar disk. It is not suitable for photography but is a good option for casual users interested in solar eclipses and sunspot observation.
China has begun trial operations with the world's largest solar telescope array, the Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope (DSRT). Consisting of 313 dishes, the array is capable of monitoring solar activity with high precision. Situated in southwest China, its main task is to continuously monitor the sun, observe solar flares and coronal mass ejections, and aid research into monitoring and early warning methods for pulsars, fast radio bursts, and asteroids. Developed by the National Space Science Center, DSRT is part of the Meridian Project on space weather monitoring.
Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured a stunning solar tornado in motion above the sun's atmosphere. The tornado, caused by solar magnetic fields twisting in a spiral, was captured in a 4K high-resolution solar movie comprising 290 images over the course of about two hours. The footage shows the evolution of the giant plasma shape, which grew in size during the photo session. The video also captured a possible coronal mass ejection, a stream of charged particles from the sun.
New images of the sun's surface captured by the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope have revealed sunspots and other features in unprecedented detail. The eight images showcase the quieter aspects of the solar surface, including cool, dark sunspots that can be the size of Earth or larger. The telescope's capabilities will allow scientists to answer key questions about the sun, including the origin of solar storms and the complexities of its magnetic field, as it approaches the July 2025 solar maximum.
Engineers are building a lunar rover, VIPER, to explore the moon's south pole in 2024, which will search for ice and map how much ice may exist beneath the moon's surface. Scientists have discovered nearly 400 new species in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong region, but they may already be under threat of extinction due to human activity. A solar telescope has captured stunning images of the sun's surface, showcasing solar phenomena such as "light bridges" that span across sunspots. New research suggests that Saturn's iconic rings could disappear within the next few hundred million years. A fossil discovery has revealed the saber-toothed Inostrancevia, a prehistoric predator that made an unbelievable trek to survive rapidly changing environments during "the Great Dying."
New images of the sun's surface captured by the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope have revealed sunspots and other features in unprecedented detail. The photos showcase the quieter aspects of the solar surface, including cool, dark sunspots that can be the size of Earth or larger. The telescope was designed to make ongoing measurements of the magnetic fields in the sun's corona and provide images of the solar atmosphere like never before. Solar data from the Inouye Solar Telescope, as well as two space-based missions called Solar Orbiter and the Parker Solar Probe, can help unravel some of the sun's enduring mysteries.