Sunspot

Sunspot

2026 Best of Web

Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, National Solar Observatory

This is such a cool image. I appreciate the detail and hard work of the scientists and engineers who created the telescope that took this picture. It is also neat to see the intricacies of the glowing fireball in the sky which sustains life as we know it. In terms of flow, you can see the brighter plasma rising from the interior before it falls back into the darker lanes. Each of the small areas are roughly the size of Texas2, showing the immense scale of these plumes.

  1. https://nso.edu/gallery/gallery-images-from-the-inouye/
  2. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/29/276005/these-are-the-highest-resolution-photos-of-the-sun-ever-taken/

Next Post
Global Ocean Currents

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Fill out this field
Fill out this field
Please enter a valid email address.