Chemiluminscent light is a new type of light that is emitted by the sun that can be detected by satellites and ground-based telescopes.
But until now, scientists have not been able to photograph it.
In this case, the image shows an image of chemaliscent light emitted by a flare from the sun.
The image was taken by a Roscosmos space observatory, and the image was captured on November 4, 2017.
The Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) published the image of the chemaliscect image in a paper titled Chemilumscence of Chemiluminium in the Solar Flare by a Short-wavelength Solar Ray.
The authors note that chemiluminin is a type of fluorescent molecule that emits chemilunar and fluorescence.
The chemilium is a gas, the gas that contains hydrogen atoms.
Chemilunascence is the emission of light by the gas of a gas.
“In the solar flare, the light emitted is very faint,” said Sergey Khazanov, head of the Roscosmasat Space Telescope.
“We had the opportunity to observe this effect using a large space telescope.
This is the first time we can measure it in space.”
In a new study, Khazunov and colleagues report in Science Advances that they captured this chemilin emission from a flare on December 4, which was observed by a ground-orbiting radar.
The researchers say they could see a bright flare as bright as 7,500 nanometers (nm) and a smaller flare as little as 4,500 nm.
The scientists used an instrument called the Spectrometer-3A that measures the energy emitted by atoms of a chemical compound.
The instrument measures the amount of energy of atoms.
The team used the spectrometer to capture the wavelengths of light from the chemilinscence, which can range from 7 nanometers to 4,600 nm.
“For chemilinescence to be produced by an energetic plasma, a laser is needed,” said Khazonov.
“Lasers produce light that’s extremely long wavelengths, like visible light.
The wavelengths of the laser emitted by this flare are very short.
So, the spectrum of this flare is very short.”
The researchers measured the energy of the flare by measuring the amount that is reflected by the space between the flare and the ground.
The amount of light reflected from the flare is shown in the chart below.
The signal that is visible from the ground is the energy that is absorbed by the Earth.
The energy is then measured by the spectroscopy instrument.
The spectroscopic spectra of the light that was emitted by chemiliniscence and that was absorbed by a detector are shown in this chart.
This data was collected by a Space-based Radarsat-1 and is in the “Spectrometer” section of the paper.
The flare was observed in the direction of the sun at the same time as it was occurring.
In the spectrogram of the signal, the red-colored regions are the wavelengths that the flare emitted and the blue-colored areas are the absorption spectra.
“The detection of this chemi-scent is really remarkable because it was observed with a spectrometery that can detect wavelengths as short as 2.5 nanometers, which is quite a long wavelength,” said Churkin.
The space telescope observed the chemilscence in the same direction as the flare was happening.
“If the spectroscope was located in the sun, it would be too far away to see it,” said Riza Jadak, a space scientist at NASA Ames Research Center who was not involved in the research.
“It is very important to note that the spectrograph can’t directly measure the chemical composition of the plasma.
The ionosphere of the Sun acts like a lens that lets light into space, so the spectra can’t be directly measured.
This was the first known direct detection of chemisensitization from a chemilimatic flare.”
“The chemilusescence of the solar system is the most interesting thing we have observed in a long time,” said co-author Mark Serreze, a cosmologist at the University of California, Irvine.
“Our instruments are extremely sensitive, and they are very powerful instruments.
We have used the instruments to capture chemilu-sensitizing flare signals from space.”
The authors of the Science Advance paper also note that other chemilimescent signals from the same solar flare have been detected.
“There are a few spectroscopically confirmed chemiluin signals from other flares, but none that we can detect in space,” said Serrez.
The paper is titled “Chemiluminous flare emission from the solar flares of 2017 and 2018,” and it is available online.