﻿ Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 February 3 IFRAME: [2]https://www.youtube.com/embed/CCzl0quTDHw?rel=0 Solar Granules at Record High Resolution Image Credit: [3]NSO, [4]NSF, [5]AURA, [6]Inouye Solar Telescope Explanation: Why does the Sun's surface keep changing? The help find out, the US [7]National Science Foundation (NSF) has [8]built the [9]Daniel K. Ino[10]uye Solar Telescope in [11]Hawaii, [12]USA. The [13]Inouye telescope has a larger mirror that enables the capturing of images of higher resolution, at a faster rate, and in more colors than ever before. Featured are recently-released [14]first-light images taken over 10 minutes and combined into a 5-second time-lapse video. [15]The video captures an area on the Sun roughly the size of our Earth, features [16]granules roughly the size of a country, and resolves features as small as 30-kilometers across. Granule centers are bright due to the upwelling hot [17]solar [18]plasma, while granule edges are dim due to the cooled plasma falling back. Some regions between granules edges are [19]very bright as they are [20]curious magnetic windows into a deep and hotter solar interior. How the Sun's magnetic field [21]keeps changing, channeling energy, and affecting the distant Earth, among [22]many other topics, will be studied for years to come using data from the new [23]Inouye telescope. Astrophysicists: [24]Browse 2,100+ codes in the Astrophysics Source Code Library Tomorrow's picture: grand canyon night sky __________________________________________________________________ [25]< | [26]Archive | [27]Submissions | [28]Index | [29]Search | [30]Calendar | [31]RSS | [32]Education | [33]About APOD | [34]Discuss | [35]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [36]Robert Nemiroff ([37]MTU) & [38]Jerry Bonnell ([39]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [40]Specific rights apply. [41]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [42]ASD at [43]NASA / [44]GSFC & [45]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://www.youtube.com/embed/CCzl0quTDHw?rel=0 3. https://www.nso.edu/ 4. https://www.nsf.gov/ 5. https://www.aura-astronomy.org/ 6. https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dki-solar-telescope/ 7. https://www.nsf.gov/ 8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN8cnN7Nlh4 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Inouye 10. https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dki-solar-telescope/ 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States 13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Tyon7zNRs 14. https://www.nso.edu/inouye-solar-telescope-first-light 15. https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/first-light-cropped-field-movie/ 16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuZG_vFPtIM 17. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/in-depth/ 18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics) 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100416.html 20. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/70/ce/c3/70cec30919aefe50ada3bd8e0e6239e6.jpg 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111106.html 22. https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dki-solar-telescope/csp/ 23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_K._Inouye_Solar_Telescope 24. http://ascl.net/ 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200202.html 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 29. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 30. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 32. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 33. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 34. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=200203 35. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200204.html 36. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 37. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 38. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 39. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 40. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 41. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 42. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 43. https://www.nasa.gov/ 44. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 45. http://www.mtu.edu/