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astronomers finally resolve the suns miniature plasma whirlpools each barely 20 kilometers wide Twenty kilometers across. That was the threshold scientists needed to reach on the solar surface before they could spot what they were hunting for, and it happens to sit right at the ceiling of what the biggest solar telescope on the planet can manage.

Astronomers finally resolve the sun’s miniature plasma whirlpools, each barely 20 kilometers wide

inouye telescope spots plasma whirlpools rolling along the suns magnetic edges Physicists have understood for roughly a hundred and fifty years what two fluids do when they slip past one another at unequal speeds. First the boundary between them buckles, then it curls, and finally it winds up into vortexes. Named the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and described back in the late 1860s, it explains the ripples wind draws on water and the rows of curved shapes it shears out of clouds.

Inouye telescope spots plasma whirlpools rolling along the Sun’s magnetic edges