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English: This image at the time of publication is the highest resolution image of the sun's surface ever taken, at 789 nanometers (nm). Features as small as 30km (18 miles) in size are observable for the first time. The image shows a pattern of turbulence of solar plasma, a super-heated gas. The cell-like structures, each about the size of Texas (approximately 700'000km2), are the signature of a dynamic activity of heat from the inside of the sun to its surface. The solar material rising in the bright centers of “cells" then sinks becoming a darker less-hot material by convection. The smaller brighter (intercell) areas with the darker areas are indications of magnetic fields, thought to channel energy that becomes the outer layers of the solar atmosphere which is the corona
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Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope

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This file, which was originally posted to https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/first-light-full-image/, was reviewed on 30 January 2020 by reviewer Wcam, who confirmed that it was available there under the stated license on that date.

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Picture of the sun taken with the Daniel K. Inoukye Solar Telescope

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29 January 2020

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current09:33, 23 May 2024Thumbnail for version as of 09:33, 23 May 20247,320 × 7,320 (25.25 MB)TiagoPereiraConversion to black and white was done on spurious claims. There is no reason to deviate from the original creators of the image. This is an image taken at infrared wavelengths, so it is not even visible with the naked eye, and "reality" would not be in black and white. (Would be closer to red colour.) Many great astronomy pictures are shown in false colours, since there is no easy representation of a narrowband wavelength.
02:25, 21 April 2022Thumbnail for version as of 02:25, 21 April 20227,320 × 7,320 (17.87 MB)CactiStaccingCraneThe Sun is white, not yellow. This picture is recolorized to yellow for public interest and recognition, not the actual reality.
03:44, 30 January 2020Thumbnail for version as of 03:44, 30 January 20207,320 × 7,320 (25.25 MB)AcagastyaHi-res
03:12, 30 January 2020Thumbnail for version as of 03:12, 30 January 20203,660 × 3,660 (7.78 MB)AcagastyaUser created page with UploadWizard

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