New images taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have revealed otherwise invisible details of our Sun, including a new view of the dark, contorted centre of a sunspot that is nearly twice the diameter of the Earth. The images are the first ever made of the Sun with a facility where ESO is a partner. The results are an important expansion of the range of observations that can be used to probe the physics of our nearest star. The ALMA antennas had been carefully designed so they could image the Sun without being damaged by the intense heat of the focussed light.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1703/
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The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
17 January 2017
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11 January 2017: The winners of this year’s Catch a Star Contest have been announced.
The top three prizes were awarded to: The Lost Planet, by Andrea Moral Suárez, Natalia Serrano López ...
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