Astrophotographers have shown the most detailed image of the Sun
Miscellaneous / / April 06, 2023
Astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Jason Genzel have created the most detailed image of the Sun yet. To do this, they stitched together about 90,000 of their own photographs of the star and NASA archival footage. The result is a 140-megapixel image that amateur astronomers have called the "Fusion of Helios" (Fusion of Helios), writes Live science.
“We wanted to take astrophotography as far as it can go in terms of both science and art, and create a complete mosaic of the Sun. We've got an ultra-accurate image of our star," McCarthy said.
One of the most difficult tasks was to obtain images of the solar corona and chromosphere (outer shell). These parts of the Sun are only visible under certain conditions.
In our work, we used several layers of the solar atmosphere, which usually cannot be photographed at the same time. The reason is the brightness of the sun. The corona is only visible when the star is completely obscured, such as during an eclipse.
Andrew McCarthy
astrophotographer
The Helios Confluence also depicts a giant plasma tornado estimated to be about 14 globes or 120,000 kilometers high. It was featured last month at NASA and wrote all world publications.
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