NASA Telescope Snaps 1st Photos of Mystery Region on the Sun

Friday, July 26, 2013 - 09:30 in Astronomy & Space

NASA’s IRIS spacecraft has taken its first photos of the lowest layers of the solar atmosphere, a little-understood region of the sun. The early observations suggest huge amounts of energy flow through this part of the sun's atmosphere.

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