Scientists release highest resolution images of the Sun ever taken

Scientists have released the highest resolution images of the Sun ever taken.

The images were captured by the newly operational Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (SKIST) located in Hawaii.  On Wednesday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released them to the public.

According to the National Solar Observatory website, the images show a "pattern of turbulent 'boiling' plasma that covers the entire sun."  Each cell-like structure is about the size of Texas.  They are the "signature of violent motions that transport heat from the inside of the Sun to its surface."

That hot solar plasma rises in the bright centers of "cells," cools off and then sinks below the surface in dark lines in a process known as convection."

The National Science Foundation released a quick time-lapse video of the surface as well.

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