Sun's swirling surface captured in spectacular detail by world's largest solar telescope

The Sun's surface is constantly churning with hot, glowing plasma.

Those swirling eddies play a huge role in the Sun's occasional violent outbursts, but they're difficult to see because it is so bright.

Now astronomers have used the world's largest solar telescope to capture the highest-resolution imagery ever taken of our star's roiling surface.

It shows a section of the Sun about 5,000 by 3,500 kilometres in size: a zone that, on Earth, could comfortably enclose mainland Australia.

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