CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Inouye Solar Telescope is the world’s most powerful solar telescope commissioned after 25 years of meticulous research. It is mounted at the top of the Maui volcano Haleakala in Hawaii. The telescope has marked one year of being in service with the release of this stunning image of the Sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -Inouye Solar Telescope is a four-meter solar telescope on the island of Maui, Hawai’i. It’s currently the largest solar telescope in the world. With a focus on understanding the Sun’s explosive behavior, observations of magnetic fields are at the forefront of this innovative telescope.

Detailed explanation-3: -The National Large Solar Telescope (NLST) is a Gregorian multi-purpose open telescope proposed to be built in Merak village in Ladakh in India and aims to study the sun’s microscopic structure.

Detailed explanation-4: -Inouye Solar Telescope, has released its first image of a sunspot. Although the telescope is still in the final phases of completion, the image is an indication of how the telescope’s advanced optics and 4-meter primary mirror will give scientists the best view of the sun from Earth throughout the next solar cycle.

Detailed explanation-5: -The sun’s lower atmosphere, the chromosphere, is usually drowned out by light from below it. The world’s most powerful solar telescope has captured the first-ever detailed image of the sun’s chromosphere, the layer of its atmosphere just above its surface.