Unprecedented images may explain one of greatest mysteries of the sun
The image of the sun’s surface, taken by the Inouye solar telescope, reveals signatures of what scientists call Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. Photograph: NSF/NSO/Aura/MPSView image in fullscreenThe image of the sun’s surface, taken by the Inouye solar telescope, reveals signatures of what scientists call Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. Those images picked out details as small as 30km across, but the latest are right at the limit of the telescope’s capability.View image in fullscreenImages of the sun’s surface taken in early 2020.
- ▪The image of the sun’s surface, taken by the Inouye solar telescope, reveals signatures of what scientists call Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities.
- ▪Photograph: NSF/NSO/Aura/MPSView image in fullscreenThe image of the sun’s surface, taken by the Inouye solar telescope, reveals signatures of what scientists call Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities.
- ▪Those images picked out details as small as 30km across, but the latest are right at the limit of the telescope’s capability.View image in fullscreenImages of the sun’s surface taken in early 2020.
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The image of the sun’s surface, taken by the Inouye solar telescope, reveals signatures of what scientists call Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. Photograph: NSF/NSO/Aura/MPSView image in fullscreenThe image of the sun’s surface, taken by the Inouye solar telescope, reveals signatures of what scientists call Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. Photograph: NSF/NSO/Aura/MPSThe sunUnprecedented images may explain one of greatest mysteries of the sunHighest-ever resolution pictures of our star could help show why its corona is millions of degrees hotter than its surfaceIan Sample Science editorWed 5 Aug 2026 11.00 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleGolden bands and swirling vortices have been spotted on the sun in the most detailed images ever captured of the turbulent surface of our home…
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