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Sun's Sharpest Image Reveals Plasma Vortices
The Sun's highest-resolution image shows band-like and vortex-like structures near a sunspot, confirming Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities on the Sun for the first time. The vortices, some fringes just 20 km wide, may explain the Sun's hot outer atmosphere.
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