A bubbling ball of gas
The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing are the magnetic fields, the engines of it all. The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, a collaborative project between the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau and partners in Germany, Spain and the USA, has now delivered images that show the complex interplay on the solar surface to a level of detail never before achieved.
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Tags: Balloon, Clouds, Collaborative Project, Dart, Germany, Images, Interplay, Katlenburg Lindau, Level Of Detail, Magnetic Fields, Max Planck, Max Planck Institute, Solar Surface, Solar System Research, Spain, Sun, Sunrise, Surface Structure, Telescope