Archive · 31 May 2025
Sharpest-Ever View of Sun's Corona Reveals New Features
Scientists have taken the clearest pictures of the sun's corona, the sun's outer atmosphere.
They used a special telescope in California with special cameras.
These pictures show tiny details like plasma 'raindrops' and fast-moving plasma streams, that arc and loop along magnetic field lines.
These images help scientists study the sun's weather, like solar flares, and how they can affect things on Earth.
The new images show tiny jets on the sun.
Scientists captured the most detailed view ever of the sun's corona.
Images reveal plasma features like coronal raindrops and high-speed plasma streams.
The Goode Solar Telescope (GST) in California, with adaptive optics, achieved the images.
Researchers observed coronal rain, plasmoids, and twisting prominences in detail.
Findings could improve understanding of solar flares and space weather events.
- Who
- Scientists using the Goode Solar Telescope (GST).
- What
- Captured most detailed images of the sun's corona.
- When
- Findings were published May 27.
- Where
- Goode Solar Telescope (GST) in California.
- Why
- To study the sun's corona, solar flares and space weather.
- Telescope
- Goode Solar Telescope (GST)
- Location
- California
- Main Feature
- Coronal Rain
- Plasma Speed
- Nearly 100 km/s
- Image Detail
- 63 kilometers
