Close-up images of the sun released
For those who don’t know, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is described as the most powerful ground-based solar telescope in the world. Inouye, which has a 4 m wide mirror compared to other telescopes and is located on the island of Maui in Hawaii, collects more sunlight, allowing high resolution images to be recorded.
Each of the images released by the National Science Foundation is about 82,500 km wide. That is, it represents less than ten percent of the total diameter of the Sun.
Reportedly, the new information gathered from the Inouye Solar Telescope will be compared with data collected from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). These images are also expected to shed light on the many mysteries the Sun has to offer, including the origin of solar magnetism, the mechanisms of coronal heating, and the solar wind, flames and coronal mass.