First Ultraviolet Image Of Our Sun Reveals Weird Web-Like Structures
Scientists have taken the first ultraviolet images of the Sun’s corona—its oddly hotter outer atmosphere—and found weird web-like structures. Published in Nature Astronomy, the discovery was made after a scientist suggested pointing a special camera on a weather satellite to capture only the Sun’s ultraviolet (UV) light—the same light that creates Vitamin D. The Sun’s corona is the outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere,...