| ▲ | Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface(physicsworld.com) | ||||||||||||||||
| 35 points by layer8 a day ago | 6 comments | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | lucgommans a day ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Figure 1c from the paper[1] looked like it would make a great desktop background, but the resolution on the web is mediocre and there is this dashed rectangle to indicate the extent of the d-f subimages. In the PDF, the rectangle is drawn on top as a separate object so you can easily extract the underlying object! Here are the figure 1 a-c images, lossless as they are in the PDF, having cropped a few transparent pixels for each one: https://lucgommans.nl/tmp/doi_10.1038_s41586-026-10871-3_fig... https://lucgommans.nl/tmp/doi_10.1038_s41586-026-10871-3_fig... https://lucgommans.nl/tmp/doi_10.1038_s41586-026-10871-3_fig... edit: supplementary video 2 has a panel similar to figure 1b in 10% higher resolution, screenshot: https://lucgommans.nl/tmp/doi_10.1038_s41586-026-10871-3_sup... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dotfrag a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
In the abstract, they're stating that the magnetic field of the sun is what's causing the surface to look as if it's wind-swept -- is that right? Am I reading that correctly? So the extensive shifting of the magnetic field is causing the visual distortion? | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ChrisArchitect a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ck2 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
astrophysics is really making some remarkable leaps this decade ("Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research" sounds so wonderfully Star Trek doesn't it) | |||||||||||||||||
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