{"id":10070,"date":"2020-06-17T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/get-ready-to-see-the-sun-as-youve-never-seen-it-before\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T19:49:00","slug":"get-ready-to-see-the-sun-as-youve-never-seen-it-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/get-ready-to-see-the-sun-as-youve-never-seen-it-before\/","title":{"rendered":"#Get ready to see the Sun as you\u2019ve never seen it before"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Get ready to see the Sun as you\u2019ve never seen it before<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 17, 2020 |<\/span> 3:49pm <\/p>\n

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\n Exploring and observing the various other planets in our solar system is neat and all, but none of it (or us) would be here without the Sun. Despite that, we actually know fairly little about our nearest star, and in recent years astronomers have been eager to change that. A joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency sent the Solar Orbiter on a trip<\/a> to take some up-close-and-personal photos of the star, and it just made its very first close pass.<\/p>\n

As the European Space Agency explains in a new blog post, the flyby took place at a distance of just over 47 million miles from the star\u2019s surface. That\u2019s roughly halfway between the Earth and the Sun, but it\u2019s close enough that it allows the spacecraft to capture imagines in a higher resolution than has ever been possible before.<\/p>\n

Understanding how the Sun ticks is a complicated task. Observing the Sun from our vantage point on Earth allows us to learn certain things about it, but it still holds many mysteries. Learning more about the processes that fuel its incredible output of energy and its visible surface features like sunspots and coronal mass ejections means getting as close as possible without destroying sensitive equipment that can tap its secrets.<\/p>\n

Observing the Sun from the surface of our planet poses additional problems, due in large part to Earth\u2019s atmosphere. \u201cWe have never taken pictures of the Sun from a closer distance than this,\u201d ESA scientist Daniel M\u00fcller said in a statement. \u201cThere have been higher resolution close-ups, e.g. taken by the four-meter Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii earlier this year. But from Earth, with the atmosphere between the telescope and the Sun, you can only see a small part of the solar spectrum that you can see from space.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s own Parker Solar Probe has made multiple close passes of the Sun during its ongoing mission, and it comes much closer to the star\u2019s surface than the Solar Orbiter does. However, the probe isn\u2019t equipped with imaging capabilities and is designed to send back sensor readings and data rather than photos. NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory can take crisp images of the Sun, but it\u2019s much farther away than the Solar Orbiter is right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur ultraviolet imaging telescopes have the same spatial resolution as those of NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO), which takes high-resolution images of the Sun from an orbit close to Earth,\u201d M\u00fcller explains. \u201cBecause we are currently at half the distance to the Sun, our images have twice SDO\u2019s resolution during this perihelion.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the near future, the orbiter will send back its data to Earth, allowing scientists (and us) a glimpse of the Sun in a way that we\u2019ve never seen it before.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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