A team of astrophysicists accidentally captured this extremely rare moment of a solar storm while photographing a hybrid solar eclipse over Australia last week.
Solar storm (in a red circle) during the total solar eclipse that occurred in Australia on April 20. (Photo: Petr Horálek, Josef Kujɑl, Milan Hlaváč).
In the image, rays of light from the corona, the Sun’s outer atmosphere, can be seen. But more important is a strangely shaped halo emanating from the coronal mass eruption (CME), or Sun storm.
The extremely rare solar eclipse that occurs on April 20 is called because from different points the observer will see a total solar eclipse, with the Sun completely obscured by the Moon, or an oblique eclipse, the Sun. The Sun is obscured by the Moon in the middle and lets a halo of light appear outside. This is the first hybrid eclipse in over a decade.
The photo captured by the solar storm during the eclipse is a combination of hundreds of photos taken by Czech astrophysicists Petr Horálek, Josef Kujal and Milan Hlaváč from Pebble Beach in New South Wales (Australia), according to Saaceweather.
The photo shows a total solar eclipse at the maximum position, a rare opportunity to observe the corona. “More details are captured in the image than the human eye can see”said Horalek.
Photographers were expecting to capture the corona, and suddenly they captured an erupting solar storm. In the original image, the CME appears rather faint. Combined with images from NASA’s Solar and Heliosphere Observatory, the storm became clear.
The solar storm in the photographer’s image coincides with the explosion of particles from the images from the Solar Observatory and the Heliosphere. (Photo: Petr Horálek).
The solar corona is particularly strong in the new image, which shows the peak of an 11-year cycle in which solar activity peaks and then declines. Solar storms are another proof that solar activity is increasing.
The picture also shows “diamond ring” phenomenonwhen the Sun begins a circular motion behind the Moon as the total solar eclipse draws to a close.
The effects of the hybrid eclipse can also be observed from space. On the same day, the Japanese lander Hakuto-R Moon captured an image of “Earth Rises”., as the planet slowly emerges from behind the Moon. In this image, due to the eclipse, Australia is still covered by the Moon’s shadow and appears as a large dark patch on the surface of the planet.
The moment Earth appears behind the Moon captured by Hakuto-R from space.
The moment Earth appears behind the Moon captured by Hɑkuto-R from space. Australia is the black spot still masked by the Moon. (Photo: isρace).
In the past, eclipses also gave astrophysicists the ability to capture unique images, such as “Golden Ring” Taken by Chinese photographer Shuchang Bong during a solar eclipse in Tibet in 2020.
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A team of astrophysicists accidentally captured this extremely rare moment of a solar storm while photographing a hybrid solar eclipse over Australia last week.
