World's most powerful solar telescope sees incredible coronal loops on the sun (image)

 Hey, Space Placers!

A full image of DKIST's view picture; it looks like a large knife painting with splotches of red-orange arranged in a sine-wave-like pattern.

The full version of DKIST's image of narrow coronal loop strands. The image is about 4 Earth-diameters on each side. (Image credit: NSF/NSO/AURA)

I have imaged the Sun in white & Hydrogen Alpha light for decades, and it was always a challenge to do so.

This just released image by the National Solar Observatory (NSO)  is simply amazing as to detail, clarity and the technology of the telescope that took it - the Daniel F. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST).

"DKIST, operated by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Solar Observatory, has now imaged hundreds of coronal loop strands that are just 29.95 miles (48.2 kilometers) wide on average, and some could be as thin as 13 miles (21 kilometers). These are right on the limit of the DKIST's resolution, which is itself more than 2.5 times sharper than the next best solar telescope."

Get all of the details here, INCLUDING THE PROPOSED TRUMP BUDGET CUT FROM $30 MILLION TO $13 MILLION WHICH WILL CAUSE DKSIT TO BE SHUTTERED.

We need to study the Sun as it powers all life on this planet and Space Weather.

Sky Guy in VA

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