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

Astronomers have captured the highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's visible surface, Hacker News reports. The breakthrough came from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, and the findings, published in Nature, reveal tiny plasma vortex structures never before visible at this level of detail.

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