๐ Sun's surface is covered in tiny plasma tornadoes โ and they may solve a 50-year mystery
The Inouye Solar Telescope just captured the first-ever high-res images of Kelvin-Helmholtz plasma vortices on the Sun, some barely 20 kilometers wide โ the same swirling instability that curls ocean waves. Published in Nature, these spinning structures may explain why the Sun's corona runs a million degrees hotter than its surface below. Could these tiny whirlpools also be the hidden driver behind solar flares and space weather?
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