The highest resolution image of the Sun’s surface ever taken

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The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has produced the highest resolution image of the Sun’s surface ever taken. In this picture taken at 789nm, we can see features as small as 30km (18 miles) in size for the first time ever.
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phinds said:
Very cool. Thanks for posting.

I especially like this part:
In these dark lanes we can also see the tiny, bright markers of magnetic fields. Never before seen to this clarity, these bright specks are thought to channel energy up into the outer layers of the solar atmosphere called the corona. These bright spots may be at the core of why the solar corona is more than a million degrees!
Amazing that we can distinguish these bright spots in the dark lanes, where the cooled plasma sinks down.
 
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