Our Sun like you have never seen it before! Sunspots to solar storms, check out 8 photos by DKI Solar Telescope

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And now, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has released a set of 8 photos that provides a peek deep into the workings of the Sun.

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These images feature a variety of sunspots and quiet regions of the Sun obtained by the Visible-Broadband Imager (VBI).

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The Inouye Solar Telescope’s unique ability to capture data in unprecedented detail will help solar scientists better understand the Sun’s magnetic field and drivers behind solar storms.

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The sunspots pictured are dark and cool regions on the Sun’s “surface”, known as the photosphere, where strong magnetic fields persist. 

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Sunspots vary in size, but many are often the size of Earth, if not larger.

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Complex sunspots or groups of sunspots can be the source of explosive events like solar flares and coronal mass ejections that generate solar storms.

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These energetic and eruptive phenomena influence the outermost atmospheric layer of the Sun, the heliosphere, with the potential to impact Earth and our critical infrastructure.