Adaptive optics produces ultrasharp images of sunspot

10/08/2005 07:00AM

Adaptive optics produces ultrasharp images of sunspot

Advanced technologies now available at the National Science Foundation's Dunn Solar Telescope at Sunspot, NM, are revealing striking details inside sunspots and hint at features remaining to be discovered in solar activity. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>


Comments:

  • mclemens [Mike Clemens]
  • 10/08/2005 11:30PM
Thats like the view through my... uhhh, no, no actually its not like the view through anything of mine.

  • STARKID2U [Brian Reynolds]
  • 10/09/2005 05:38PM
....I still don't have any idea WHY the sun has or needs sunspots at all, in the first place. What exactly does this image do to help us in this regard?