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Scientists just unveiled the most detailed images ever of the sun’s surface, revealing wild, swirling patterns around magnetic zones — a discovery born from testing the new Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii. What they found? Feathery ripples caused by magnetized plasma moving at different speeds, a phenomenon called Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, never seen this clearly on the sun before. Thanks to the telescope’s massive four-meter mirror, these ultra-fine details are now visible, unlocking new insights into solar plasma behavior and space weather that affects us daily.

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