Astronomers Captured Our Sun in the Highest Resolution Ever | SciShow News

A new telescope, the DKIST, has given us our most direct look at the Sun ever, in the highest resolution yet. And a paper published last week has revealed how “the dunes” auroras may be more than just a new spectacle in the night sky.

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Sources:

Auroras:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019AV000133
https://news.agu.org/press-release/citizen-scientists-discover-new-type-of-aurora-named-the-dunes-video-available/
https://www.nasa.gov/content/about-auroras
http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/4D.html
https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/polar/telecons/archive/PR_E-PO/Aurora_flyer/aurora-flyer_p2.doc.pdf
https://auroraborealisobservatory.com/news/shapes-and-types-of-aurora/
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/science-beauty-and-mystery-auroras
https://eos.org/editor-highlights/skywatchers-spy-rippling-waves-in-the-northern-lights
https://www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/auror1.htm
https://www.iap-kborn.de/en/research/department-radar-remote-sensing/research-topics/atmospheric-waves/
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/the-when-and-where-of-mesospheric-bores-revealed
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/solar-effects.html
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/timed-10yrs.html

Sun:
https://www.nso.edu/inouye-solar-telescope-first-light
https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/first-light-full-image-wdunn/
https://www.spaceweather.com
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/news-articles/solar-minimum-is-coming
https://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/papers/hathadh/2013HathawayUptonColegrove.pdf [PDF]

Images:

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13167
https://news.agu.org/press-release/citizen-scientists-discover-new-type-of-aurora-named-the-dunes-video-available/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20099
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12865

https://www.nso.edu/gallery/gallery-dkist#foobox-1/2/SITE-PHOTOS-8-25-16-035.jpg
https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/first-light-full-field-movie/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13494
https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/first-light-full-image-wdunn/
https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/image8/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20306