On August 31, astronomers in the UAE captured images of heightened solar activity at noon from an Abu Dhabi observatory.
Visible along the Sun’s edge are small solar spicules. These are thin gas structures that erupt like jets from the Sun, reaching thousands of kilometers into space.
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Using a specialized solar telescope (Hydrogen Alpha), the photograph reveals several sunspots as dark patches and some dark solar filaments on the Sun’s surface.
The image, taken by Al Khatim Astronomical Observatory’s special telescope, shows the Sun’s chromosphere, the layer above the photosphere that is visible with the naked eye and ordinary telescopes.
