The world’s most powerful solar telescope, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) in Hawaii, for the very first time, has captured the chromosphere or the layer of the core of the sun above the sun’s surface.
The image of the chromosphere was captured on June 3, illustrating a broad region of 51,000 miles (82,000 kilometers). The chromosphere surface is much like the outer surface of the sun known as the corona.
The chromosphere layer is considered difficult to view as the light emitted from the photosphere, which is close to the sun’s surface overcomes the chromosphere.
As per Science Alert, the blazing plasma running into the sun’s corona seems to be like carpet threads. Granules form the mass of stuff, about 1,600 kilometers across.
According to the NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, the world’s most powerful telescope, the NSF’s Inouye Solar Telescope can completely change how the sun will be viewed and studied. As per NASA, the temperatures of the chromosphere ranges from 4000K to be the lowest to 8000K being the highest (3700 to 7700 degrees Celsius).
