On February 5th, astronomers released a series of images, essentially amounting to video footage of the surface of the sun in extremely high resolution, much higher than ever before. The images were plastered across newspapers and news websites around the world and amount to one of the most incredible achievements of modern astronomy. But that's just the beginning. We had the privilege of sitting down with one of the managers from the team responsible, Paul Jeffers, and got to pick his brain on just exactly how does one do THAT?! This is a conversation you don't want to miss.
Here are some helpful links:
The website for the National Solar Observatory, where you'll find an incredible gallery of images and everything you want to know about the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope.
Or you can go to the National Science Foundation website that oversees the whole operation.
The NSO's Instragram account is loaded with incredible images.
And we really liked this YouTube video that illustrated the process really well.
And, finally, the awesome write-up in the New York Times about the monumental image capture.