The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope, located in Hawaii is considered to be the largest telescope in the world. With the help of this telescope, scientists have now been able to capture high-resolution pictures of the Sun’s surface and this picture is one of its kind to this date.

It is not just a fascinating thing for a showpiece but it depicts the star’s turbulent atmosphere with precise detailing and features as small as 18 miles visible. The Sun’s surface in the image looks like a honeycomb.

The telescope is located in the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the US and according to the astronomers; the telescope will guide us to discover several facts about the Sun and is a remarkable invention of the era. This will help us to solve several enigmas and the impact it has on our world.

If we closely look into the picture produced, it shows gold cell-like structures which are approximately the size of Texas. These small structures are one of the factors that are responsible for the impulsive motions that carry heat from the Sun’s inner core to its surface.

As told by Mihalis Mathioudakis, the professor of the Queen’s University Belfast and one of the contributors in developing the high-resolution camera for the telescope, the clear and the most detailed images of the Sun produced will now help us to explore new horizons in solar physics. It will also help us to comprehend properly the physical processes occurring at the surface of the Sun which wasn’t known yet and with such details which were not possible to obtain till now.

France Cordova, the director of NSF told that the Inouye Solar Telescope will allow us to locate the magnetic fields inside the Sun’s corona, the place responsible for solar eruptions. This benefit expands to improving our conceptions of the factors that affect the weather of the space.

This will help the weather forecasters to properly predict the solar storms and the alert would provide more time for the utility companies and the government to ensure safety for the power grids, infrastructure and protect active satellites from the solar storms.

Matt Mountain, president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, further added to this discussion that the Telescope will help to predict the specific place on the entire Earth where there is a sure chance of rain which is still outside the scope of space weather.

He further added that we lag behind terrestrial weather by almost half of a century and this demands more study on space weather directing our focus to the Sun. The process would take a lot of time but it is eventually possible with the Inouye Solar Telescope.

This telescope will also work with the NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter, which is yet to be launched, to help us in the field of solar research in the best way. David Boboltz, the program director in NSF’s division of astronomical sciences has considered these high-res images to be just the origination of discoveries.

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