Share the highest resolution view of a solar flare!
Stunning details are incredible.
On August 26, the U.S. media "Latest Science News" released two pictures.
It provides us with the highest resolution solar image ever.
The mentioned solar flare is an X1.3 class strong flare.
It occurred on August 8, 2024 at 20:12 (UTC), when it was approaching the solar maximum.
CORONAL ARCS are plasma arcs along the solar magnetic field lines.
When they twist and break, magnetic energy can heat the plasma to millions of degrees, producing bright flares.
Until now, the exact thickness of these arcs has been uncertain.
New observations show that these arcs have an average width of 48.2 kilometers, possibly as thin as just 21 kilometers.
This is the first time the Inouye Solar Telescope observed an X-class flare.
The paper's author Cole Tamburri said in a statement, "These flares are some of the most powerful events our star produces, and we were lucky to capture this event under perfect observational conditions."
The coronal loops in the video are accelerated 100 times, spanning across the Sun.
"We finally can glimpse those spatial scales we have speculated about for years," Tamburri said, "This opens the door to studying their size, shape, evolution, and even the scale at which magnetic reconnection (the driving force behind flares) occurs."
Ah, the sun, our sun, this is you------
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1841564137203722/
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