โ๏ธ Highest-Res Images of the Sun Reveal Plasma Whirlpools Just 20 Kilometers Wide
The NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope captured the sharpest photos ever taken of the Sun's surface, revealing spinning vortices of plasma caused by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability โ the same effect that curls ocean waves and creates Jupiter's cloud bands. Published in Nature on August 5, 2026, these 20โ200 km wide whirlpools may finally explain why the Sun's outer corona blazes at over a million degrees while the surface is only 5,500ยฐC. Had you heard that the Sun's atmosphere is actually hotter than its surface?
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