An image shows the Sun’s surface at the highest resolution ever taken, shot by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope , the world’s largest solar telescope, on the island of Maui, Hawaii January 29, 2020. — NSO/NSF/AURA/Handout via Reuters
They were captured by the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, which sits at around 3,000 metres above sea level near the summit of Haleakala volcano in Maui, Hawaii. A pattern of turbulent, “boiling” gas is shown covering the sun, which is some 93 million miles from Earth.