New images of the Sun were revealed thanks to the captures of the telescope Daniel K.belonging to National Sun Observatory (NSO). With the eight unpublished photographs, the telescope showed its power, since solar points and calm parts can be seen with a detail that had never been achieved.
The telescope was recently inaugurated, in Hawaii, and it is in its Operations Development Phase (a period of learning and transition), so it does not work at one hundred percent of its capacities. However, he is already classified as the most powerful in the world and after this incredible discovery, there is no doubt that everything that Daniel K can do is very promising.
These captured images will help specialists to understand the phenomena of the star’s electromagnetic field, as well as the behavior of solar storms. Thanks to the sharpness that its Broadband Image Generator allows, these images can be taken like no other.
The points photographed by the telescope are dark and cold regions of the surface of the celestial body, known as the photosphere, and whose dimensions vary but on average measure the same as the planet Earth.
“Solar point clusters can cause explosive events such as flares and coronal mass ejections, which in turn generate solar storms. These energetic and eruptive phenomena influence the outer layer of the Sun’s atmosphere (the heliosphere), which has the potential to impact Earth,” read the NSO press release.
On the other hand, in the calm zones of the Sun, convection cells could be observed that transmit heat patterns through the photosphere, through plasma that flows upwards.
“In the atmospheric layer above the photosphere, called the chromosphere, we see elongated, dark fibrils, which cause small-scale electromagnetic concentrations,” the NSO explained.