These New Pics of the Sun Look Like a Hellish Nightmare
It’s a real shame that we can’t stare directly at the sun—at least, not without doing some serious and potentially permanent damage to our eyes. If we were able to get past our star’s intense brightness, we’d be able to see an incredible look at its hellish and chaotic surface. Luckily, we don’t need to risk blindness to gaze at the awesome power of the sun using solar telescopes.
Researchers at the National Science Foundation recently released eight new pictures of the sun captured by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful ground-based solar telescope, operated by the Haleakala Observatory on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The images reveal stunning sunspots with amazing detail.
Take a look for yourself: