The sun’s outer atmosphere -the corona – is the piping hot outer limit of our star, and is usually hidden from View except during rare total eclipses. Now, scientists have gotten their clearest look ever at this mysterious region, thanks to a new adaptive optics system that scrubs away atmospheric blood Surface.
Researchers from the National Solar Observator and New Jersey Institute of Technology Unveiled The System Today, Along with Dazzling New Images and Videos of the Sun’s corona. The findings, Published In Nature Astronomy, Show Fine-Scale Structures in Solar Prominence, Short-Lived Plasma Jets Called Spicules, and even Coronal Rain: Cooling Plasma That Falls Back to the Solar Surface Aug Aug The Star Magnetic Field Lines.
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The team’s imaging breakthrough hinges on a technology called coronal adaptive optics. Installed on the 5.25-Foot (1.6-Meter) Good Solar Telescope in California, The New System-Nicknamed “Cona”-ADJUSTS A MIRROR 2,200 Times Per Second to Correct For the Causesed by the chart Earth’s Atmosphere. The Remarkable Technology Counterbalances Any would-be wobble in the telescope, thereby production particularly sharp images of the corona.
“This Technological Advancement is a game-Congress,” said dirk schmidt, an adaptive optics scientist at nso and the study’s lead author, in an observator release“There is a lot to discover when you boost your resolution by a factor of 10.”
Until now, Solar Telescopes have used adaptive optics mainly to study the sun’s surface, the release stated. Observing the fainter corona has reminded a challenge, with coronal features blurred to scales of 621 mills (1,000 kilometers) – A Limit that’s existed for 80 years. But cona now resolves features down to just 39 miles (63 km), theoretical limit of the good telescope.
Among the new footage captured by the team are shots of a twisting solar prominence response in real time, Spicules flickering on the surface, and fin, faine, hair-like strands of coronal Rain Narrower (20 km) (20 km). When you consider how far the sun is from earth, how Fant the Corona is Relative to the Rest of the Star, and how much of Earth’s Turbulant Atmosphere the team had to cut through and correct for, the sharpnass of the sharapnas of the trimph.
“This transformative technology, which is likely to be adopted at observatories world-wide, is poised to Reshape Ground-Based Solar Astron,” Said Study Co-Author PHOLIP, A. Physicist at njit-setr, in the same release. “With coronal adaptive optics now in operation, this marks the beginning of a new era in solar Physics, Promising Many More Discoveries in the Years and Decades to come.”
The observations offer crucial data for unraveling Enduring Solar Mysteries – Like Why the Corona is Millions of Degrees Hotter Than the Solar Surface.
The team plans to brings the coronal adaptive optics technology to the 13-Foot (4-Meter) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaiʻi-Pottilely Revealing Eveen Smaller Details of the Sun.