Thursday, August 8, 2013

The fury of our sun captured in never-before-seen detail

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Normally it's harmful to stare at the sun, but for researchers at the NJIT’s Big Bear Solar Observatory, that's their job. Stripping away the danger with its New Solar Telescope (NST), the team used its newly-equipped spectrometer to help capture the clearest images of the sun's atmosphere to date, discovering never-before-seen features within the star at the center of our solar system.


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/8/4601020/sun-telescope-nst-clearest-photo-sunspot

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