Scientists have captured the highest–resolution observations of the sun ever taken, revealing astonishing new details.
These incredible videos and photos were taken using the NSF Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, the world’s most powerful solar telescope.
They show a magnetically turbulent area on the edge of a cool sunspot, in the visible outer layer of our home star.
Combined with cutting–edge simulations, researchers say their new observations reveal something that has never been seen before.
In a new paper, published in Nature, the scientists describe the first ‘unambiguous’ identification of a phenomenon called ‘Kelvin–Helmholtz instability’ (KHI).
These are swirling patterns that look like whirlpools on
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