Sunday, September 29, 2013

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News


SUNRISE offers new insight on sun's atmosphere

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 03:33 PM PDT

Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise -- carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013 -- scientists have presented unique insights into a layer on the sun called the chromosphere. Sunrise provided the highest-resolution images to date in ultraviolet light of this thin corrugated layer, which lies between the sun's visible surface and the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona.

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