The sun is no smoothie. The sharpest images of the sun ever taken, released last week, show a rugged surface with gargantuan mesas and valleys formed of scalding gas.
SCORCHING BREW. These beads are vast gaseous granules on the sun’s surface. A granule lasts 6 to 10 minutes.
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