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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There’s something slightly odd about the fact that we’ve had solar telescopes for more than a century and still couldn’t quite see the sun’s surface. We’re already aware of the big stuff: plasma bubbling in convective cells, sunspots forming where magnetic fields bunch up, radiation bursting outward on an 11-year cycle. However, the fine-grained dynamics at the boundaries of magnetic structures were harder to resolve and have always been blurry. The Daniel K.
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