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The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling

8 August 2026 at 18:15
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability β€” NSF/NSO/AURA/MPS, CC BY 4.0 (National Solar Observatory)

The surface of the Sun has been photographed in more detail than ever before, and it turns out to be covered in whirlpools. Victoria Gill reports for BBC News on the most detailed images of the Sun yet, taken by the Inouye Solar Telescope on a high peak in Hawaii and published in the journal Nature. β€” Read the rest

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