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[img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200203.jpg[/img] Solar Granules at Record High Resolution
Explanation: Why does the Sun's surface keep changing? The help find out, the US
National Science Foundation (NSF) has
built the
Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in
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first-light images taken over 10 minutes and combined into a 5-second time-lapse video.
The video captures an area on the Sun roughly the size of our Earth, features
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solar plasma, while granule edges are dim due to the cooled plasma falling back. Some regions between granules edges are
very bright as they are
curious magnetic windows into a deep and hotter solar interior. How the Sun's magnetic field
keeps changing, channeling energy, and affecting the distant Earth, among
many other topics, will be studied for years to come using data from the new
Inouye telescope.
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