The European Solar Telescope (EST) is specifically engineered to minimise local seeing, which, in a telescope, refers to the degradation of image quality caused by the presence of the telescope itself. Do you know how it will achieve this? 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/thermal-control

The EST project was present at the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society (European Astronomical Society), held in Padova (Italy) through several talks related to the telescope. ☀️🔭 All the information can be found here ⬇️ eas.unige.ch/EAS2024/sessio…

Here are some beautiful shots from this morning's launch of #Sunrise_III. Enjoy!

Congratulations, #Sunrise_III! Beautiful launch! Cannot wait to see TuMag, SCIP and SUSI observations from 40 km altitude above the Earth’s surface!

🌟 A brilliant opportunity today for #ResearchInfrastructures agents from all over the world to reflect on experience & practices in measuring RI #funding. #ESFRI can contribute towards #standardisation, #data quality, #sustainability of the exercise & what we expect to learn.

Last month various engineers and scientists from the EST Project Office presented the latest technical advancements of the European Solar Telescope at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024 SPIE ☀️🔭👏 Read more ➡️ tinyurl.com/EST-SPIE-2024

☀️ Granules are bright cells where hot gas from subsurface layers moves upwards, releasing heat on its way up until it turns over and descends through the intergranular lanes. More info on granulation 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/solar-gallery-…

📢 Would you like to meet the individuals who will fill the positions of Director and Administrator of the EST Foundation? They have been unanimously selected by the trustees of the foundation. 👏 All the information here ➡️ tinyurl.com/Director-Admin…

Very excited to take on a new challenge in my professional career. I wish to thank the Board of Trustees for trusting me to lead the European Solar Telescope Foundation. The EST is an inspiring project to advance our understanding of the Sun, crucial for European science

The EST project was represented at the 16th Scientific Meeting of the SEA! 👏 Luis Bellot (IAA-CSIC) has presented the international consortium responsible for the TIS/FBI development, the EST science goals and the science requirements. ➡️ tinyurl.com/EST-SEA-2024

☀️ The movie shows observations of active region 12367 near the solar limb and the associated coronal rain representing plasma falling back to the Sun. ☀️🌧️ 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/coronal-rain

☀️ This movie shows the temporal evolution of a sunspot umbra as observed on 2015 June 22 by the 1.6-m Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO). ☀️🔭 It also illustrates the evolution of light bridges and penumbral filaments. 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/Sunspot-Umbrae

Have you heard of chromospheric fibrils? 🔭 Scientists are very interested in learning more about their origin, properties and relationship to chromospheric magnetic fields.️🌞👉🏻 tinyurl.com/Chromospheric-…

Héctor Socas Navarro, Director of the EST Foundation, gave an interview to the Spanish science and mystery podcast 'Universo de Misterios'.☀️🌍☀️ In this two-part episode, Socas discusses the future of the European Solar Telescope. 👉🏻 est-east.eu/est-around-wor…

📸☀️ These images show tiny magnetic bright points embedded in the darkest regions of the solar granulation, the so-called intergranular lanes. There, the gas moves downwards into subsurface layers. ️ More info on Quiet Sun Bright Points 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/Quiet-Sun-Brig…

EST was represented at the XXXII IAU General Assembly International Astronomical Union (IAU) held in Cape Town, South Africa! 🗣️ Luis Bellot gave a presentation on 'The Sun at a Glance,' an infographic competition for secondary schools conducted as part of the EST project. 👉🏻  tinyurl.com/XXXII-IAU

🛰️ SoHO is a spacecraft launched in 1995 and has been observing the Sun ever since. Its MDI instrument takes full disk images of the Sun. This animation alternates between intensity images and magnetograms recorded as close in time as possible. 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/full-disk

Time sequences for 4  examples of reconnection brightenings in the solar atmosphere. ☀️ In the top, we see various brightenings known as Ellerman bombs. The lower 3 rows show examples of similar brightenings in quiet areas away from active regions 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/Chromospheric-…

🎥 Temporal evolution of light bridges in a sunspot umbra. Light bridges are long, narrow features that split sunspot umbrae in 2 or more parts. They usually show a central dark lane associated with upflows and intergranular lanes where donwflows occur. 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/Sunspot-light-…

Amazing footage of coronal rain from yesterday!