The Daniel K. Inouye
Solar Telescope has formed the highest resolution image of the Sun's surface
ever taken located on the Hawaiian island of Maui. This image covers an area of
36,500 x 36,500 km. The Sun has been studied for many years. To unveil all its
mysteries, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope - DIST,
for its acronym in
English - works untiringly from Maui, Hawaii.
With a four-meter
space, this solar telescope is the largest in the world and has just launched
its machinery. The space technology behind this powerful device has allowed us to get
to know our star a little more closely: the highest resolution images of the
solar surface ever taken have been published, informative unprecedented
details.
This unbelievable view
of the Sun is the first of many images that DKIST is going to provide us and
that will help reveal “a new era of solar science and a leap forward in
understanding the Sun and its impacts on our planet,” they say in a statement
from the National Science Foundation -NSF- , entity behind the telescope.
The Inouye is expected
to gather more information about our star during the first five years of life
than all the solar data collected since Galileo first pointed a telescope at
the Sun in 1612.
The first images of the
telescope show a close-up view of the solar surface. It is a pattern of
turbulent plasma 'boiling' covering the entire sun. The structures in the form
of 'cells' - each one the size of Texas - are the 'signature' of the violent
movements that transport heat from the interior of the Sun to its surface.
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