Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Scientists have snapped some shiny new pictures of the Sun in the most detail we’ve ever seen. They used a super powerful solar telescope to show "whirlpools" of activity which are the Sun’s magnetic field being twisted and moved by the motion of hot gas.

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Victoria Gill, our Science Correspondent chats to us about how the pictures were taken by the Inouye Solar Telescope and what they tell us about the universe.

Plus, we hear from three space photography enthusiasts and science content creators.

00:00 Introduction
00:30 The telescope used
01:10 What can you see in the telescope
01:30 What’s happening on the sun’s surface
03:50 ‘Space Weather’
05:17 How zoomed in are these images?
06:55 Space photography enthusiasts
09:20 Why solar science matters

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