You Have To Check Out These New Images of the Solar System’s Center
You’ve never seen the Sun like this.
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00:00They say you should never stare directly at the sun, and yeah, that's true.
00:07That is, unless you're looking at it through what's called a solar telescope, and these
00:11images of our solar system's center were just captured by one of those, and you've probably
00:15never seen it like this before.
00:17Science Alert reports while each of these images is zoomed in super close, you're still
00:21seeing 51,260 miles of the sun's surface at a time, revealing what its atmosphere, or
00:27what's also known as its chromosphere, look like at incredible resolutions.
00:31For reference, each of the almost hair-like strands is around 994 miles wide.
00:36It's an atmospheric look in contrast to what's going on underneath.
00:39This photo is another captured by the same solar telescope, revealing the vivid pattern
00:43on the sun's surface more clearly.
00:45The astronomers who took the photos even overlaid an image of the Earth to scale, just to show
00:49how extremely big the field of view for these highly detailed images actually is.
00:53Images like these are the culmination of more than two decades of research and engineering,
00:57which experts say they would have been impossible to capture without this telescope in the past,
01:01except possibly during a total solar eclipse.