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News Release 05-178
Solar Telescope Yields Striking New Sunspot Images
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This high-resolution sunspot image was produced on Sept. 23 using a new CCD camera attached to the Dunn telescope's adaptive optics system.
Credit: Friedrich Woeger, KIS, and Chris Berst and Mark Komsa, NSO/AURA/NSF
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In this version of the same image, a NASA photograph of Earth is added for scale. Both Earth and sunspot have been artificially blurred on the left half to simulate what the telescope would see through Earth's atmosphere without the adaptive optics system.
Credit: Mandatory credit: Friedrich Woeger, KIS, and Chris Berst and Mark Komsa, NSO/AURA/NSF
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