You've seen the sun, but you've never seen the sun like this. This single frame from a video captured by ESA's Solar Orbiter mission shows the sun looking very fluffy! You can see feathery, hair-like structures made of plasma following magnetic field lines in the sun's lower atmosphere as it transitions into the much hotter outer corona.
Solar orbiter takes a mind-boggling video of the sun retrieved 3 May 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2024-05-solar-orbiter-mind-boggling-video.html
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