The granule flow in that animation would make a great RNG ;)
Congrats to all involved, and kudos for ushering in a new golden age of solar observations
At first glance of the static image, it appeared to me the granular structure of solar surface convection resembled a thousand other phenomena in Nature: poly-crystalline grain boundaries in metal alloys, lipid cells in fatty tissue, colloidal suspensions of cloud smoke
But watching the animation made me realize how unique and dissimilar this is to any other chaotic turbulent flow
Due to the sun's gargantuan scale, even throwing the world's fastest supercomputers at the problem, we cannot adequately simulate all the convection, plasma, rotation and magnetic interactions of solar surface and interior dynamics
These images make me feel very humbled, reminding us of our place in the cosmos!
Weak influence of near-surface layer on solar deep convection zone revealed by comprehensive simulation from base to surface
Comments
The granule flow in that animation would make a great RNG ;)
Congrats to all involved, and kudos for ushering in a new golden age of solar observations
At first glance of the static image, it appeared to me the granular structure of solar surface convection resembled a thousand other phenomena in Nature: poly-crystalline grain boundaries in metal alloys, lipid cells in fatty tissue, colloidal suspensions of cloud smoke
But watching the animation made me realize how unique and dissimilar this is to any other chaotic turbulent flow
Due to the sun's gargantuan scale, even throwing the world's fastest supercomputers at the problem, we cannot adequately simulate all the convection, plasma, rotation and magnetic interactions of solar surface and interior dynamics
These images make me feel very humbled, reminding us of our place in the cosmos!
Weak influence of near-surface layer on solar deep convection zone revealed by comprehensive simulation from base to surface
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau2307
The next wave of closely-guarded RNG secrets could very well be which solar coordinates your camera is pointed at!