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beep@piefed.world to Space@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months ago

Tiny vortices discovered on the sun’s surface: The world’s largest solar telescope made small vortices visible that are changing our understanding of the sun

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Tiny vortices discovered on the sun’s surface: The world’s largest solar telescope made small vortices visible that are changing our understanding of the sun

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beep@piefed.world to Space@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months ago
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NSF Inouye Solar Telescope Enables Major Discovery of a Hidden Solar Process - NSO - National Solar Observatory
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Scientists using the NSF Inouye Solar Telescope discovered Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on the Sun, shedding light on solar activity and space weather.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/cosmos/p/1317091/tiny-vortices-discovered-on-the-suns-surface-the-worlds-largest-solar-telescope-made-sma

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    Tiny

    Relatively speaking that is:

    the average distance between vortices, known as the “instability wavelength,” ranged between 50–65 km

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