Observing an image of the sun as humans have never seen it before Date: 09/26/2023 06:23:59 PM
Observing an image of the sun as humans have never seen it before
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The scientific website “Live Science” published a new video clip of the sun, in a way that humans have never seen before.
The video was captured by a camera located on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, in cooperation with the US space agency NASA.
The mission of this vehicle, which was launched in 2020, is to monitor the sun, its atmosphere, and the winds emerging from it.
The new video looks different, because it captures the hottest part of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, its corona, something that could not be photographed before.
The solar corona is what produces what is known as the solar wind that damages satellites, so it is important to understand this part of the sun.
The sun’s atmosphere is a million times fainter compared to the glow emanating from the sun’s surface, the photosphere. However, the temperature of the corona is about one million degrees Celsius, which is 150 times hotter than the photosphere.
This was a mystery that puzzled scientists for a long time.
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