Scientists unveil 'mind-blowing' new images of sun's surface

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Researchers have used the largest and most powerful solar telescope to see the surface of the sun in stunning new detail. The new images reveal whirlpools of plasma — a boiling brew of hot and magnetized charged particles.

Friedrich Wöger and his colleagues at the National Solar Observatory noticed that when different layers of plasma move past one another at different speeds, they generate subtl…

Researchers have used the largest and most powerful solar telescope to see the surface of the sun in stunning new detail. The new images reveal whirlpools of plasma — a boiling brew of hot and magnetized charged particles.

Friedrich Wöger and his colleagues at the National Solar Observatory noticed that when different layers of plasma move past one another at different speeds, they generate subtl…

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