FOR EXPANDING OUR CURRENT REALITY

Thomas Rimmele

Director, Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, National Solar Observatory

Solar Telescope came online in January after 25 years in the making, its lead developer, astronomer Thomas Rimmele, was “pacing through the room as if I was waiting for a baby to be born.” Immediately, the Maui-based telescope began capturing images of the sun, offering unprecedented clarity and detail of the surface’s hot plasma and massive convection