This week’s image comes from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. Using a newly developed Visible Tunable Filter, it is able to produce detailed images of the Sun’s surface.
Carrie Black, NSF program director for the NSF National Solar Observatory, stated:
When powerful solar storms hit Earth, they impact critical infrastructure across the globe and in space. High-resolution observations of the sun are necessary to improve predictions of such damaging storms…The NSF Inouye Solar Telescope puts the U.S. at the forefront of worldwide efforts to produce high-resolution solar observations and the Visible Tunable Filter will complete its initial arsenal of scientific instruments.
You can read much more about the telescope and its filter here.
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