David Drew: Swirling Solar Plasma | Thunderbolts

Our Sun has revealed another surprise. Researchers using the world’s largest solar telescope, the DKIST (Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Maui, Hawai’i), have observed extraordinarily tiny plasma vortices on the solar surface exposing a deeper, detailed level of organization. A paper published this August in Nature, “Ubiquitous Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities…

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