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Daniela Park @danielapark Β· 3 weeks ago
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β˜€οΈ The Sun Is Covered in Tiny Plasma Whirlpools β€” And They May Explain a 60-Year Mystery

The NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun's surface, revealing spinning plasma vortices as narrow as 20 kilometers β€” the same Kelvin-Helmholtz instability that curls breaking ocean waves and Jupiter's cloud bands. Published in Nature on August 5, 2026, the study suggests these previously invisible eddies twist magnetic fields and may explain why the Sun's corona burns at over a million degrees while the surface below sits at just 5,500Β°C. Would you have guessed the answer to one of solar physics' biggest mysteries was hiding in tiny spinning whirlpools?

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