Dr Matt Mountain, of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, said: ”With this solar cycle just beginning, we also enter the era of the Inouye Solar Telescope.
“We can now point the world’s most advanced solar telescope at the Sun to capture and share incredibly detailed images and add to our scientific insights about the Sun’s activity.”
Sunspots and the related solar flares and coronal mass ejections are known to trigger violent space weather events, which can cause havoc on the Earth, a consequence of living inside the star’s heliosphere.
These events affect technological life on Earth, with the magnetic fields associated with solar storms capable of disrupting the infrastructure relied upon for modern life.
source: express.co.uk