Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - BBCNEWS - 20200130:03:23:00
On these very small scales, the size of manhattan. and we are looking at those from 93 million miles away. what we really want to accomplish with this telescope is to precisely measure the magnetic field, not only on the surface of the sun, but also in the upper atmosphere, in particular in the corona of the sun, so the corona is the outer atmosphere of the sun that you can see with your naked eye during an eclipse. what we currently cannot do is measure the magnetic field in the corona. and this telescope will let us do that. that's incredibly important to us because the sun generates this im...