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The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface

Ars Technica • Fri, 07 Aug 2026

We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see.

What happened?

We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see.

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We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see.

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