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Highest-resolution images of the Sun reveal ubiquitous plasma vortices on its surface for the first time


High-spatial-resolution observations of the solar photosphere reveal a far more complex and dynamic solar scene than previously observed and show that ubiquitous Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities drive plasma mixing on the Sun.

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