Observations released in celebration of the Inouye Solar Telescope Inauguration Ceremony

The first images of the chromosphere — the area of the Sun’s atmosphere above the surface — taken with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on 3 June 2022. The image shows a region 82,500 kilometers across at a resolution of 18 km. This image is taken at 486.13 nanometers using the hydrogen-beta line from the Balmer series.