By By Denise ChowPublished July 26, 2013Space.com A still image from the first movie captured by the IRIS solar observatory, 21 hours after mission controllers opened the telescope’s door.NASA/IRIS Artist's concept of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) satellite in orbit. The sun-observing telescope is launching in June 2013.NASA This image compares observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (left) and the IRIS telescope (right).NASA/SDO/IRIS Next Slide Previous Slide NASA's newest solar observatory has taken its first photos of the lowest layers of the solar atmosphere, a mysterious and little-understood region of the sun. The images, taken just 21 hours after...
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