An astrophotographer from the United States, Andrew McCarthy, has shared a new series of photos of the sun titled “Fire and Meltdown”. With more than 26,000 likes on Instagram, the photos capture the streams of plasma rising from the Sun's surface. You can purchase the unframed print of the photo for $50.
The 300-megapixel image shows what our star looked like at 2 pm on November 29, from the photographer's backyard. He wrote on Instagram that he captured around 150,000 images using a modified telescope.
The composite image shows the "blinding bursts of energy coming from areas of heightened magnetic activity, pushing and pulling on the solar surface and creating fascinating patterns in the atmosphere."
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The image went viral as amateur astrophotographers around the world were stunned by the level of detail he captured in his backyard. The photo was able to capture sunspots and active regions called swirls or coronal loops. According to NASA, coronal loops are found around sunspots and in active regions.
Last year, NASA released the first images from the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter, which included the closest pictures ever taken of the sun. Solar Orbiter is an international collaboration between the European Space Agency and NASA and launched on February 9, 2020.
Holly Gilbert, NASA's project scientist for the mission, said in a statement that the "incredible images (from Solar Orbiter) will help scientists to studying the sun's atmospheric layers, which is important for understanding how it drives space weather near Earth and throughout the solar system. planet."
