Astronomers utilising the Inouye solar telescope in Hawaii have captured the highest-resolution images of the sun to date. These detailed pictures reveal golden bands and swirling vortices smaller than 20km within a magnetically active region near a sun spot. Such unprecedented observations of the turbulent surface may provide critical insights into why the solar corona remains millions of degrees hotter than the surface, potentially solving one of the greatest mysteries regarding our home star.
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