A stunning breakthrough in solar physics reveals ultra-fine magnetic structures on the Sun's surface, thanks to the NSF's ...

Credit: NSF/NSO/AURA Comparison of the Inouye Solar Telescope image (right) and synthetic image (left) produced using a state-of-the-art, physics-based simulation of the solar surface. The ...

Using the world's largest solar telescope, a team of scientists has captured one of the most detailed views ever of a ...

Inouye Solar Telescope captures sharpest-ever view of ... to clearly link these stripes to the ones we see in state-of-the-art simulations—so we can better understand their nature.

Inouye Solar Telescope, built and operated by the NSF National Solar ... The level of detail achieved allows us to clearly link these stripes to the ones we see in state-of-the-art simulations—so we ...

Inouye Solar Telescope, built and operated by the National ... clearly link these stripes to the ones we see in state-of-the-art simulations—so we can better understand their nature.

The stripes, called striations, ripple across the walls of solar granules—convection cells in the Sun’s photosphere where hot ...