Astronomers have published the most detailed photo of a sunspot

The world's largest solar observatory, the Daniel Inouye Telescope, unveiled its first and most

detailed image of a sunspot.While the device is still in its final stages of development, these data suggest that the telescope's advanced optics and four-meter mirror will give scientists more information about the Sun over the next few decades.

Photo taken on January 28, 2020.The scientists added that the sunspot image achieves a spatial resolution of about 2.5 times higher than any other image. On it you can see magnetic structures up to 20 km in size on the surface of the star.

The image reveals striking detailssunspot structures. The striped appearance of hot and cool gas emerging from the dark center is the result of the merging of intense magnetic fields and hot gases boiling below.

The concentration of magnetic fields in this darkthe area suppresses the heat inside the Sun from reaching the surface. Even though the dark sunspot region is cooler than the Sun, it is still extremely hot at over 4,200 degrees Celsius.

This sunspot image is only a tiny fraction of the sun. However, the sunspot is so large that the entire Earth can fit inside it.

Sunspots appear as darkplots. These are places on the surface of the Sun, where the lines of force of the magnetic field, crossing the surface, go out of the Sun's body. Sunspots can be several times larger than Earth and are always darker because their temperature is lower than the surrounding surface of the Sun.

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