11 July 2018
High hopes for Hi-C mission to reveal secrets of the Sun
... small explorer satellite observatory that captures data from the lowest part of the sun's atmosphere: the chromosphere, a turbulent interface region where much of the coronal heating begins. “This is the first combined simultaneous dataset...
02 December 2016
GREGOR helps scientists take a closer look at the Sun
... surrounding umbra where the magnetic pressure is higher. Light-bridges have been known to display significantly enhanced chromospheric brightness and activity and whether this activity reaches as far as the Sun’s outermost atmospheric layer, the...
