Planted on top of a mountain in the Hawaiian Islands, ‘Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has been probing the Sun for a year. It is collecting high resolution data related to the activity occurring in the Sun. According to Space.com, with the help of this data, scientists can get answers to some big questions.
of the information AccordingEarth-sized sunspots appear on the ‘surface of the Sun’ in new images of the Sun captured by DKIST. Similar sunspots cause events like coronal mass ejection and solar flare. Sometimes their effect reaches to the earth. These sunspots emerge for some time. This period can be of one week.
The DKIST team says the sunspots seen in their images are surrounded by long filamentary regions called penumbra. The telescope took these pictures with the help of a powerful camera called Visible-Broadband Imager. This camera can capture high-resolution images of the Sun’s photosphere and chromosphere.
Significantly, the Sun is passing through its 11-year cycle and is in a very active phase. This is called solar maximum. Because of this, many sunspots are emerging in the Sun and incidents of coronal mass ejection and solar flares are taking place. The American space agency NASA has already told that the phase of these events happening in the Sun will continue for a few years. However, the new pictures of the Sun are thrilling. Some of these look like beehives.