NSF’s newest solar telescope produces first images

NSF’s newest solar telescope produces first images

Cell-like structures on the surface of the sun

Just released first images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal unprecedented detail of the sun’s surface and preview the world-class products to come from this preeminent 4-meter solar telescope. NSF’s Inouye Solar Telescope, on the summit of Haleakala, Maui, in Hawai‘i, will enable a new era of solar science and a leap forward in understanding the sun and its impacts on our planet.

Activity on the sun, known as space ...

More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299908&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click


This is an NSF News item.

Published January 29, 2020 at 10:10AM
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