Revealing the Sun's fiery surface in a staggering combination of 90,000 images

The duo combined nearly 90,000 images of the sun to compose the image, which they call "Fusion of Helios", which displays the normally invisible solar corona, the outermost layer that tends to be hidden by the sun's strong glare.

"We wanted to push astrophotography as far as it can go in terms of science and art in it by creating a super-resolution image of our star in a way that breaks the traditional rules of astrophotography," McCarthy told Live Science. "We wanted to create a complete mosaic of the sun."

One of the challenges was to obtain images of both the corona, the outer part of the sun's atmosphere, and the chromosphere, which is a thin layer of plasma between the corona and the visible surface of the sun (the photosphere). These parts of the sun can only be seen under certain conditions.

McCarthy explained: "We use multiple layers of the sun's atmosphere that cannot usually be imaged at the same time. The reason is the relative brightness of the sun. The corona is only really visible if the sun is completely obscured, as it happens during an eclipse."

With the help of computer software, the two photographers "stitched the images together like a quilt" to make the final image, according to McCarthy's Instagram post announcing the final image.

The mosaic includes thousands of "spikes", which are smooth-looking jets of plasma, as well as a huge hurricane of plasma about 14 Earths high, according to McCarthy.

To make the image, McCarthy and Genzel used their own images, including one taken by Genzel during the 2017 total solar eclipse, as well as data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1995 in collaboration with the European Space Agency. . Source: Live Science

The Perseverance rover discovers a flower on Mars

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has been working on Mars since February 18, 2021.

He performs the duties of biologists and tours the Martian crater "Jezero" in search of traces of present or past life. It is not known until now whether he has been able to find something of scientific value on the surface of Mars, and the matter can only become clear after the Mars Sample Return mission, which will be launched in the mid-thirties, returns to Earth the results of his study in the form of natural and biological samples that he collected. .

But hypothetical botanists are confident, without any samples or other formalities, that life exists on Mars, and at least plant life. Their leader, Scott C. Waring, also a hypothetical archaeologist, received further confirmation of this. Looking at an image the rover took on April 4, 2023, Scott saw a flower. He showed it on his website.

NASA doesn't seem to have seen Venus. Otherwise, they too would have been surprised and would not have been silent until now. And the object, of course, is fuzzy, it really does look like a flower. Or a mushroom with a red leg, or a green bud or hat.

Venus is very bright, a kind of non-Martian color.

Among the plausible hypotheses, there is only one stating that the object is some part that fell from the rover itself, but how did it manage to stay on the stone?

As for some experts in "NASA", they provided an explanation for this. They said that the shape of Venus was taken from sulfates that were deposited from the water that was on the surface of Mars in the distant past.

But the present 'plant' is bright in colour, while the sulfates are duller. It is, of course, a mystery. And not the first.

It is known that hypothetical botanists discovered in 2020 either a flower or a mushroom in a photograph taken by the Curiosity rover, in another crater. And that thing is very similar to the current thing. Source: Komsomolskaya Pravda

James Webb takes his first picture of the ice giant "Uranus"!

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shared its first look at Uranus, revealing invisible glowing rings around the ice giant and its 27 moons.

The $10 billion telescope captured 11 of the planet's 13 rings in the new image, which are so bright they appear to blend into one bright ring.

It also amazed astronomers with the power of the JWST, picking up two fainter dusty rings that weren't discovered until the 1986 flyby of Voyager 2.

The main rings are composed of rock glaciers several feet across, while the other rings are mainly composed of glaciers obscured by rock. The rings are thin, narrow and dark compared to those of other planets, such as Saturn.

Webb also captured many of the 27 known moons of Uranus, most of which are too small and dim to be seen here, but six brightest moons were identified in the wide view image that was shown for only 12 minutes.

Uranus is a stunning shade of blue caused by a thick layer of haze in its atmosphere.

The Oxford University-led researchers have dubbed this layer Aerosol-2, which they say will appear white at visible wavelengths.

The JWST image was made possible by the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), which captures light in the near-infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum, and brought distant galaxies into sharp focus in the new image.

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared in a statement: “When Voyager 2 looked at Uranus, its camera showed a nearly featureless blue-green ball at visible wavelengths. And with infrared wavelengths and the extra sensitivity of James Webb, we see even more detail, what It shows how dynamic Uranus' atmosphere really is."

NASA scientists recently announced an effort to push space agencies to launch probes to Uranus and Neptune in the 2030s.

Very little is known about the formation of the two blue planets as the only spacecraft to visit them was Voyager 2, which was flying in the 1980s. Launching the probes in the 2030s makes sense as they will receive a boost from Jupiter 'perfectly aligned' with Neptune and Uranus.

The rare celestial alignment allows the spacecraft to circle Jupiter to increase speed and reduce the time it takes to reach the outer worlds. Source: Daily Mail