These are the highest-resolution images of the sun’s surface, or photosphere, ever captured. One thing that astronomers already knew is that the sun’s photosphere acts a bit like a pot of boiling water. The new DKIST images change that. To see them in the solar photosphere, the team pushed DKIST to its limits, zooming in on the outskirts of a sunspot and revealing dozens. “The continuous whirling and twisting [of KHI vortices] is likely to ‘braid’ the magnetic fields like hair,” Wöger says.