Mysterious region of the sun shines in new photo from world's largest solar telescope

The sun's lower atmosphere, the chromosphere, is usually drowned out by light from below it.

DKIST is located at the Haleakalā Observatories site on the island of Maui, Hawaiʻi, an important site with spiritual and cultural significance to Native Hawaiians.

At an altitude of 10,000 feet and surrounded by ocean, this location grants the telescope the long daylight hours a solar telescope requires and the clear skies with minimal interference fromDKIST uses the largest mirror of any sun-studying instrument. This mirror, 13 feet wide, helps the telescope collect more sunlight than any other solar telescope. The result is the clearest and highest resolution images of our star ever collected.

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