<story><title>Sun&apos;s surface seen in  new detail</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51305216</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimalc</author><text>I work as a graduate SW engineer at Andor, which produced the SCMOS camera they used to capture the images (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;andor.oxinst.com&amp;#x2F;balor-scmos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;andor.oxinst.com&amp;#x2F;balor-scmos&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Quite a nice surprise to see during my morning commute! Everyone here is extremely pleased to see how the images turned out. Very impressive work from DKIST</text></comment>
<story><title>Sun&apos;s surface seen in  new detail</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51305216</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ArtWomb</author><text>The granule flow in that animation would make a great RNG ;)&lt;p&gt;Congrats to all involved, and kudos for ushering in a new golden age of solar observations&lt;p&gt;At first glance of the static image, it appeared to me the granular structure of solar surface convection resembled a thousand other phenomena in Nature: poly-crystalline grain boundaries in metal alloys, lipid cells in fatty tissue, colloidal suspensions of cloud smoke&lt;p&gt;But watching the animation made me realize how unique and dissimilar this is to any other chaotic turbulent flow&lt;p&gt;Due to the sun&amp;#x27;s gargantuan scale, even throwing the world&amp;#x27;s fastest supercomputers at the problem, we cannot adequately simulate all the convection, plasma, rotation and magnetic interactions of solar surface and interior dynamics&lt;p&gt;These images make me feel very humbled, reminding us of our place in the cosmos!&lt;p&gt;Weak influence of near-surface layer on solar deep convection zone revealed by comprehensive simulation from base to surface&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;advances.sciencemag.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;5&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;eaau2307&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;advances.sciencemag.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;5&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;eaau2307&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>