Cuba’s westernmost province was battered by Category 3 Hurricane Ian during the early hours Tuesday, leaving destruction and uncertainty among the residents of small towns and the city of Pinar del Río. “It has been a terrible morning,” Yoandy Izquierdo Toledo, an activist from the independent Convivencia Center, based in the province of Pinar del Río, told el Nuevo Herald.
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IMAGE: Artistic visualization of the Sun s magnetic field in the active region observed by CLASP2 view more
Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC).
Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments are blind to its main driver: the magnetic field in the outer layers of the solar atmosphere, where the explosive events that occasionally affect the Earth occur. The extraordinary observations of the polarization of the Sun s ultraviolet light achieved by the CLASP2 mission have made it possible to map the magnetic field throughout the entire solar atmosphere, from the photosphere until the base of the extremely hot corona. This investigation, published today in the journal