๐ The Sun Is Covered in Tiny Whirlpools โ And We Just Filmed Them for the First Time
Scientists using the world's largest solar telescope โ NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope โ have captured the first-ever images of plasma whirlpools spinning across the Sun's surface, each barely 20 kilometers wide. The swirls, a phenomenon called Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, may explain why the Sun's corona is far hotter than its surface and how magnetic energy builds up to unleash solar flares. The findings were published in Nature on August 5, 2026. Could these tiny vortices be the key to finally solving our star's biggest mysteries?
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