When you stare at the sun it just looks like pain sensation . But when the New Solar Telescope ( NST ) does , it can catch glimpses of truly mesmerizing solar activity , and all without go blind . Here , for example , isthe most precise impression of a macula ever accept , in all its flaming aureole . It ’s like a solar inglorious hole in a field of molten varnished trash .
Located at California ’s Big Bear Solar Observatory , the NST rocks a banging 5.2 - foot mirror and can zoom in to see characteristic on the sunlight that are a simple 30 miles all-embracing . That ’s scarce a soupcon as far as the sun ’s concerned . This super accurate image shows details like we ’ve never seen them before , specifically the subtle , voluminous cytologic smear around the spot ’s calamitous sum , where the sunlight ’s magnetic field is gross out out .
Until its successor — the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope ( ATST)—is finished in a few eld , the NST holds the pennant of largest light aperture solar telescope in the world . But more importantly , its solar photography is second to none . [ New Jersey Institute of TechnologyviaIBT ]
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