Sheffield expertise to build World's biggest solar telescope
The World's Biggest And Most Revolutionary Solar Telescope Is Being Built With The Help Of Researchers From The University Of Sheffield. Led By Queens University Belfast, The Sheffield Team Is Building Cameras For The 344 Million Super Telescope Which Will Be Situated In Hawaii.
The world's biggest and most revolutionary solar telescope is being built with the help of researchers from the University of Sheffield. Led by Queens University Belfast, the Sheffield team is building cameras for the 344 million super telescope which will be situated in Hawaii.
The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), which will be launched in 2019, is being constructed by the US National Solar Observatory on Haleakala mountain in Maui, Hawaii.
With a four-metre diameter primary mirror, the telescope will be able to pick up unprecedented detail on the surface of the Sun - the equivalent of being able to examine a 1 coin from 100kms away.
It is hoped that DKIST will address fundamental questions at the core of contemporary solar physics via high-speed (sub-second timescales) spectroscopic and magnetic measurements of the solar photosphere, chromosphere and corona - the different layers of the Sun's atmosphere. The project will be mainly funded by the US National Science Foundation.
Professor Michail Balikhin from the University of Sheffield said, "The development of this telescope provides great potential for us to make earlier forecasts of space weather hazards, such as identifying solar winds which can cause huge disruption to life on Earth.
Dr Viktor Fedun from the University's Solar Wave Theory Group added, "The new high-resolution cameras used by the telescope will provide an unprecedented amount of solar image data. Researchers at Sheffield will use their leading expertise in numerical modelling of plasma processes to develop new algorithms and numerical techniques to process the data observed from the new telescope which will be really impactful to the UK science community and beyond."
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