These are the most detailed images of the sun ever taken

Largest solar telescope in the world shows boiling plasma on the solar surface

Plasma on solar surface

Boiling plasma on the sun’s surface and bright spots (seen in the dark lanes between plasma bubbles) at the roots of solar magnetic fields take center stage in a new solar telescope’s first images (one shown, spanning a region about 36,500 kilometers across).

NSO/NSF, AURA

Hot plasma churns on the sun with newfound precision in the first images from the largest solar telescope in the world.