Telescope records unprecedented and incredible images of solar activity

Astronomers at the Big Bear Solar Observatory in California waited four years to get these amazing pictures of the sun. In striking detail, the records show the intense magnetic activity of the solar surface and the direction of motion of the waves. overheated plasma.

These images were obtained through the “new solar telescope”, built especially by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to study the sun. The equipment has a diaphragm of more than one and a half aperture and the latest image sensor to capture photos in detail and in real time.

Research with the New Solar Telescope (NST) began as early as 2009, but the best images of the Sun were captured recently in May of that year, when the Observatory could record a moment of high magnetic activity on the star's surface, with good exposure to the sun. visible light.

In the two images below, released by the research center, we can see how intense the sun's activity is, with the movement of plasma, as well as explosions and sunspots. The first photo on the left is a detailed record of a sunspot, while the second image reveals the so-called photosphere of the Sun, the region of the surface that emits light.

Watching the sun and creating ever more powerful telescopes help the scientific community understand the star. There is still much doubt about how the Sun's magnetic forces work and how it can influence life on Earth or the activity of other planets. Perhaps some mysteries of the universe can be deciphered with a watchful eye to the heavens and our central star.