Andrew McCarthy (on Instagram as @cosmic-background) who is an astrophotographer has unveiled his amazing clearest photo of the sun ever seen.
The photo image is created by layering 150,000 individual images of our sun to convey the delicate and breathtaking details of our own solar system’s star.
With the breathtaking clarity of his image everything can be seen in the huge 300-megapixel image – which is a huge 30 times larger than a standard 10-megapixel camera image.
The sun has always loomed large, bringing heat and light and life. In ancient times, it was worshipped as a god; now we revere it as our local blob of luminescent hot plasm.
Astoundingly there is still much scientists don’t know about the sun:
Why is the sun magnetic?
Why are most suns Erraticsiblings?
Most starslike the sun actually behave more erratically than our sun. “More thanhalf of sun-like stars either have cycles that are slowly increasing ordecreasing in how active they are over time instead of remaining steady, orthey’re completely irregular,” said solar physicist Karel Schrijver at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in PaloAlto, Calif. “We don’t really know why.”
Why unexpected patterns in how the sun’s plasma flows?
Something scientists thought they understood. “You could hear audible gasps in the audience,” says Fox, Parker’s former project scientist. “Now we have to say, ‘Why doesn’t it look like we thought it would?’
