Solar
Corona Revealed in Super-High-Definition
Friday,
July 20, 2012
Cambridge,
MA - Today, astronomers are releasing the highest-resolution images ever taken
of the Sun's corona, or million-degree outer atmosphere, in an
extreme-ultraviolet wavelength of light. The 16-megapixel images were captured
by NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, which was launched on a
sounding rocket on July 11th. The Hi-C telescope provides five times more
detail than the next-best observations by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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