The sun, the star that our world benefits from and thanks to which we are alive, can now be photographed more clearly day by day thanks to the developing technology. While the lenses of telescopes were vulnerable to solar photons before, advanced devices such as the Inouye Solar Telescope in the USA allowed us to see details of the Sun that we had not seen before.
As the Inouye Solar Telescope continues to celebrate its first anniversary, today it allowed us to see the Sun again in unprecedented detail. The telescope photographed the Sun with a resolution of 18 kilometers (angular resolution), which can be considered a high value especially in solar photographs.
Here is the “Portrait of the Sun”:
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The photo you see above shows plasmas rising from the Sun’s surface toward the Crown Sphere, its outermost layer. Beneath the scattered capillaries is the structure seen below, seen in the photograph taken from a different part of the Sun:
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Each distinguishable segment you see in this photo is approximately 1,600 kilometers across. Both photos show an area of ’only’ 82,500 kilometers from the Sun. Even within this area alone, our Earth stands next to the Sun as small as you can see in the lower left corner of the photo.
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