This is the highest resolution image of the Sun’s surface ever taken. The National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope took the images from the summit of Haleakala, Maui, in Hawai‘i. In their announcement the organization wrote, "The images show a pattern of turbulent “boiling” plasma that covers the entire Sun. The cell-like structures — each about the size of Texas — are the signature of violent motions that transport heat from the inside of the Sun to its surface. That

Magnetic reconnection is like "crossing the streams" in outer space. But in this case, instead of destroying the Sumerian god Gozer, crossing the streams causes explosive realignment of our magnetic field, sending near-light-speed showers of charged particles towards the Earth. This process causes our beautiful auroras as well as potentially disrupting communications and power grids here on Earth. The MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale) mission was designed to study this phenomenon where it happens