Each pixel of this image of a sunspot is roughly 10 kilometers. The photo was captured by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai’i using a new instrument. (Credit: VTF/KIS/NSF/NSO/AURA ...

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Solar cycles are 11-year periods in which variations in solar activity are observed in the number of sunspots on the surface of the star. Throughout this period, levels of radiation, solar ...

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai'i is the world's largest solar telescope and has already taken some of the highest-resolution images of the Sun. One ...

The close-up reveals a cluster of continent-size dark sunspots near the center of the sun’s inner atmosphere, at a scale of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) per pixel. These blemishes mark areas of ...

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has graphs of the number of sunspots averaged for each month. This is one way they evaluate if the solar cycle maximum has been reached. NOAA announced ...

The image was acquired during recent first light efforts with the VTF at the Inouye, and shows how precisely the structures within a sunspot are resolved. Each pixel in the original version of the ...