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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Griffin

The best ever pictures of the Sun reveal something we’ve never seen before

Scientists have captured the best ever images of the Sun’s surface – and spotted something never seen before.

To see the vortices, which are between 500 and 2,000 kilometres across, researchers needed to be able to peer at the Sun in finer detail than ever before. And a new telescope allowed them to do exactly that.

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