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Highest resolution images of the sun's surface
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope produced the highest resolution images of the sun's surface. The images show a pattern of turbulent "boiling" plasma that covers the entire sun and is the signature of violent motions that transport heat from the inside of the sun to its surface.
Learn more about this research in the NSF news release NSF’s newest solar telescope produces first images; or in the NSF Solar Science Special Report. (Date image taken: 2018; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: April 17, 2020)
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