Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface

An international team of astronomers has released the highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface, captured by the Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, revealing tiny plasma vortex-like patterns previously unseen. These structures are associated with Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, a fluid dynamics phenomenon where rippled and vortex-like formations occur when fluids move at different speeds, and researchers suggest this discovery may help explain why the Sun's outer atmosphere is so hot and how magnetic energy accumulates on its surface.