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rCLThe sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirlingrCY
https://boingboing.net/2026/08/08/sun-kelvin-helmholtz-vortices.html

rCLThe 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.rCY
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36d4376nd2o

rCLThe swirls are the Sun's magnetic field being twisted and shoved around
by the motion of hot gas. Physicists call the effect Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, and it turns up whenever two fluids slide past each other
and small disturbances grow into spiraling vortices. In the ocean, it is
what builds ripples into big waves. The National Solar Observatory says
the vortices on the Sun sit 50 to 65 kilometers apart.rCY

https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major-discovery-of-a-hidden-solar-process/

That is cool. Definitely looks the part of the Great Ball of Fire.

Lynn

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On 8/14/26 21:16, Lynn McGuire wrote:

rCLThe sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirlingrCY
-a-a-a https://boingboing.net/2026/08/08/sun-kelvin-helmholtz-vortices.html

rCLThe 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.rCY
-a-a https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36d4376nd2o

rCLThe swirls are the Sun's magnetic field being twisted and shoved around by the motion of hot gas. Physicists call the effect Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, and it turns up whenever two fluids slide past each other
and small disturbances grow into spiraling vortices. In the ocean, it is what builds ripples into big waves. The National Solar Observatory says
the vortices on the Sun sit 50 to 65 kilometers apart.rCY

https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major- discovery-of-a-hidden-solar-process/

That is cool.-a Definitely looks the part of the Great Ball of Fire.

Lynn

Thanks Lynn.

bliss
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On 8/15/2026 1:07 AM, BobbieSellers wrote:

On 8/14/26 21:16, Lynn McGuire wrote:

rCLThe sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirlingrCY
-a-a-a-a https://boingboing.net/2026/08/08/sun-kelvin-helmholtz-vortices.html

rCLThe 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.rCY
-a-a-a https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36d4376nd2o

rCLThe swirls are the Sun's magnetic field being twisted and shoved
around by the motion of hot gas. Physicists call the effect Kelvin-
Helmholtz instability, and it turns up whenever two fluids slide past
each other and small disturbances grow into spiraling vortices. In the
ocean, it is what builds ripples into big waves. The National Solar
Observatory says the vortices on the Sun sit 50 to 65 kilometers apart.rCY >>
https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-
major- discovery-of-a-hidden-solar-process/

That is cool.-a Definitely looks the part of the Great Ball of Fire.

Lynn

-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Thanks Lynn.

-a-a-a-a-a-a-a bliss

You are welcome.

Lynn

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