The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
unleashed the 100 millionth image of sun captured by the ‘Solar Dynamics
Observatory’, the Sun watching NASA spacecraft.
Four telescopes have been used to capture eight images of
sun, and finally each of these images was then processed to one photo to create
the entire output picture.
The ‘Solar Dynamics Observatory’ was launched on February
11, 2011, and from then the spacecraft has provided some impeccable images
which played a crucial role in determining the effectiveness of studies related
to solar atmosphere.
The SDO provides almost 57,600 images every day, and it
clearly shows how solar materials sway and sometimes erupts in the solar
atmosphere.
The details provided by SDO have helped scientists to know
better about the increased temperatures in the roiling corona than in the sun’s
surface. Using the images, scientists have also learned more about the solar
fares and constantly moving magnetic fields in Sun.
Scientists who are associated with the ‘Solar Dynamics
Observatory’ are trying hard to learn the way in which Sun’s magnetic field is
generated and structured.
They are also trying to figure out the way in which the
stored magnetic energy in the sun is converted and released into heliosphere.
Heliosphere is ultimately the region of space dominated by Sun in the form of
strong solar wind and energetic particles.
The photo album of SDO is already star studded, and the 100
millionth image acts as an incredible milestone image as around some years
back, Sun was considered as an unassailable target.
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