Beautiful image of the Sun taken by the world's most modern telescope

Stunning images recently taken by the world's most powerful solar telescope have unprecedented detail.

The US National Solar Observatory has released amazing close-up images of the "chromosphere" - the second layer in the Sun's atmosphere.

An image showing hair-like plasma jets flying through the chromosphere. Each of these rays extends up to 10,000km, reaching as far as the corona (the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere).

Photo taken by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's most powerful solar telescope today, located on the island of Maui (Hawaii), taken.

This telescope was built in 2013 at a cost of about 344 million USD. Scientists believe this modern glass "will forever change the way we explore and understand the Sun; and will greatly help people in predicting and preparing for solar storms. God".

This is the first time that humans have been able to observe in such close detail and in such detail the surface of the Sun, especially the chromosphere.

According to NASA, the outer layers of the Sun are the photosphere, chromosphere, transition region, and corona.

The photosphere is the deepest layer of the Sun that we can observe so far. It rises from the visible surface at the center of the Sun's disk to about 400km above that surface. Temperatures in this zone vary from 6,200 degrees Celsius (bottom) to 3,700 degrees Celsius (top). Most of the photosphere is covered by granulation.

The chromosphere lies between 400km and 2,100km above the Sun's surface (calculated from the photosphere). Contrary to the photosphere, the temperature decreases as you go outside, in the chromosphere, the temperature increases as you get further away from the center of the Sun. The internal temperature varies between about 3,700 degrees Celsius and 7,700 degrees Celsius.

The transition region is very narrow, only about 100km, located between the chromosphere and the corona (the ring of light emitted by space around the Sun), the temperature rises suddenly from about 7,700 to 500,000 degrees Celsius.

Corona is the outermost layer of the Sun, about 2,100km from the photosphere. The temperature is very hot, from 500,000 degrees Celsius to several million degrees Celsius. The halo cannot be seen with the naked eye, except during a total solar eclipse or when using special astronomical instruments.

Scientists believe that this modern glass "will forever change the way we explore and understand the Sun; and will greatly help people in predicting and preparing for storms. Sun". These events have a strong impact on technological life on Earth, such as affecting power grids, communications, GPS navigation, air travel, satellites and astronaut activities in space.

The detailed images also help scientists see cell-like structures (each about the size of the state of Texas) arranged together like a honeycomb. This is also indicative of intense heat transfer movements from the Sun's interior to its surface.

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope also recorded an image of a sunspot in late 2020. Sunspots are areas that are darker and cooler than other areas of the Sun's surface. Although considered 'cool', the black spot is still very hot, about 4,000 degrees Celsius.

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's most powerful solar telescope today, is located on the island of Maui (Hawaii).