Ars Technica·3 min read·medium
The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface
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Researchers using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope have captured images of plasma vortexes on the Sun's surface for the first time. These findings confirm long-standing theories about Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities and may reshape our understanding of solar energy transfer.
Solar swirlies The world’s biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun’s surface We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see.
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