Unlocking Photo voltaic Mysteries: Joint Korean-American Telescope Set to Launch in October

A telescope collectively developed by Korean and American researchers to unlock the solar’s secrets and techniques is anticipated to be launched in October.

We’re anticipated to have the ability to observe the “corona”, the outermost a part of the photo voltaic environment, seen solely throughout a complete photo voltaic eclipse.

That is journalist Park Na-yeon.

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The corona is the outermost a part of the Solar.

It’s greater than 1 million instances darker than the floor of the Solar, making it tough to look at until there’s a whole photo voltaic eclipse.

Sooner or later, will probably be potential to look at the corona even when it isn’t a complete photo voltaic eclipse.

That is due to the photo voltaic telescope “Coronagraph, CODEX” created by nationwide researchers and NASA, the Nationwide Aeronautics and Area Administration of the US.

Beforehand, solely the form of the corona might be photographed, however Codex concurrently observes the temperature and velocity of the corona with a tool and produces a two-dimensional picture.

This makes it potential to measure areas starting from 3 to 10 instances the radius of the solar, enabling extra correct predictions of house climate.

[최성환 / 한국천문연구원 박사 : 일반적으로 (태양 코로나를) 사진으로 찍기 쉽지가 않아요. 온도·속도 분포를 찍기 위해서는 더 많은 어떤 기술을 가지고 적용을 해야 되는데, 그러한 기술들이 많이 접목돼있는 관측기입니다.]

This research can be vital as a result of it was developed collectively by Korean and American researchers.

After initiating discussions for cooperation within the area of heliospheric physics in 2016, joint analysis between Korea and the US has been carried out for eight years, together with a profitable floor check of a telescope utilizing a big balloon in 2019.

Built-in code meeting was accomplished final April, and closing purposeful inspection previous to launch was just lately accomplished.

[최성환 / 한국천문연구원 박사 : 나사에서의 정책은 전 세계 국가가 갖고 있는 기술력, 과학적인 역량 이런 것들을 다 활용하는 전략을 가지고 있더라고요. 함께 했던 연구원들도 이 프로젝트로 끝이 아니라, 다른 프로젝트에 가서 또 많은 기여를 하고 있어요.]

The coronagraph, scheduled for launch from NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle in October, is anticipated to function for six months to 2 years after a check interval of a couple of month.

I am Nayeon Park from YTN Science.

Video editor: Kim Younger-hwan
Video supplied by: Aerospace Administration and Astronomical Analysis Institute

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