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April 10 2020, 5:29 pm
The Central University of Lancashire (UCLan), in the United Kingdom, published on Wednesday the “highest resolution” images ever taken of the Sun’s surface. The photographs reveal extremely fine magnetic threads that are filled with electrified gases and plasma from million degrees of temperature.
By: RT
The photos were obtained by the high-resolution imaging (Hi-C) camera, a NASA space telescope that can detect structures in the solar atmosphere as small as 70 kilometers, a size that corresponds to 0.01% of dimensions of the Sun.
The study, conducted by UCLan researchers in conjunction with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and published in the Astrophysical Journal, may help better understand the hot strands of the Sun and how solar flares and storms could affect life in the earth.
“Until now, solar astronomers have been observing our nearest star in ‘standard definition’, while the exceptional quality of the data provided by the Hi-C telescope allows us to examine an area of the Sun in ‘ultra-high definition’ for the first time. ”Stressed Robert Walsh, professor of solar physics at UCLan and institutional leader of the Hi-C team.
“It is a fascinating discovery that could improve our understanding of the flow of energy through the Sun’s layers and, ultimately, to Earth itself. This is very important if we want to model and predict the behavior of the star that gives us life, “added Thomas Williams, one of the researchers.
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