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Sharpest View of the Sun Reveals Magnetic Stripes the Size of Manhattan

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The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope stands tall at 13 feet ( 4 meters ) atop a volcano in Maui , Hawaii , staring at our host star with great intensity.

Scientists used the telescope’s unique capabilities to capture ultra-narrow bright and dark stripes on the solar photosphere at an unprecedented level of detail.

The striations are the result of curtain-like sheets of magnetic fields that ripple and shift across the surface of the Sun .

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