Astronomy Picture of the Day
    

Keyword: mdi
Под солнечным пятном Under A Sunspot
7.11.2001

At the Sun's surface, sunspots are known to be dark, planet-sized regions of intense magnetic fields. But what lies below? Using observations from the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) instrument aboard the space-based SOHO observatory, astronomers have derived this premier picture of the flow of material just beneath a visible sunspot.





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