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New adaptive optics shows details of our star's atmosphere
Scientists from the U.S. NSF National Solar Observatory and New Jersey Institute of Technology produced the finest images in the Sun’s corona to date. Using a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur caused by Earth's atmosphere, their ground-breaking results were recently published in Nature Astronomy and pave the way for deeper insight into coronal heating, solar eruptions, and space weather.
“ This transformative technology, which is likely to be adopted at observatories world-wide, is poised to reshape ground-based solar astronomy, ” says Philip R. Goode, distinguished research professor of physics at NJIT-CSTR and former director at BBSO, who co-authored the study. The mission of the NSF National Solar Observatory (NSO) is to advance knowledge of the Sun, both as an astronomical object and as the dominant external influence on Earth, by providing forefront observational opportunities to the research community. The Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is an international leader in ground- and space-based solar and terrestrial physics, with interest in understanding the effects of the Sun on the geospace environment.
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