Amazing images reveal new details in the sun’s atmosphere
City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images of the sun’s corona, showing our star as we’ve never seen it before
By Jonathan O’Callaghan
29 May 2025
Plasma streams in the sun’s corona
Schmidt et al./NJIT/NSO/AURA/NSF
Those details include streams of plasma dancing through the corona and loops of plasma known as solar prominences breaking apart and reforming.