World’s largest solar telescope spots tiny vortices on the Sun at 19-km scale

The observations were made with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), a powerful 4-metre class solar telescope operated by the US National Science Foundation. The Sun may appear to us on Earth as a glowing ball of plasma, but its surface is far more active and turbulent than it looks, which has been proven time and again through research. According to a latest report by Nature, observations from the world’s largest solar telescope have now provided an incredibly detailed view of the Sun's surface, showing tiny swirling structures that could help scientists understand how energy and magnetic fields flow through the solar atmosphere. The article clearly mentions that the observations were made with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), a powerful 4-metre class solar telescope operated by the US National Science Foundation. It could examine parts of the Sun on the order of 19 kilometers, letting researchers see features that were too small for solar telescopes to detect before.A closer look at the SunThe photosphere - the visible surface of the Sun - is never still. It is proven to have hot plasma which rises, cools, and then sinks again in a process known as convectio...