The sharpest-ever visible-light images of the sun are revealing puzzling new features about sunspots, the dark regions where the sun’s powerful magnetic field is concentrated. The pictures are the first to show sun structures as small as 90 kilometers in diameter. “These images take the study of sunspots into a new regime,” says Thomas R.
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