Need a little more The sun In your life?
German scientists have finished upgrading a solar telescope called the GREGOR at the Ted Observatory in the Canary Islands, and the result is a stunning new set of images of our star.
“This was a very exciting, but very challenging project,” said Lucia Kleint, Freiburg, Germany, a scientist in solar physics and the project’s lead researcher. Said in a statement. “In just one year, we completely redesigned the optics, mechanics and electronics to achieve the best image quality.”
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Gregor launched his observations in 2012 as the largest in Europe Solar telescope And the upgrade project started in 2018. The revision introduces new scheduled policies to work on the telescope’s optics and control systems, to repaint the observatory to reflect less light and less interfere with observations, and to improve the scientific output of observations.
“Telescopes now allow scientists to capture features on the sun that are only miles0 miles (across 0 kilometers) across,” the statement said. And since Solar activity is currently on the rise With the current minimal issue of the current 11-year solar cycle coming to an end, there will be plenty to study Gregor.
Svetlana Bardugina, an astrophysicist at the University of Albert-Ludwig in Germany and director of the Leibniz Institute, said: As for solar physics, the same said in the statement. “We now have a powerful tool for solving puzzles on the sun.”
Described in the updates A paper Sept. 1 in the Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Published.
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