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Today marks the third anniversary of the release of the most detailed images ever of the sizzling surface of the sun by NSF's new, groundbreaking Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, or DKIST. This amazing instrument is the most powerful solar telescope in the world and ushers in a new era of solar science. Those first images were part of DKIST's initial verification phase; since then, it's been operating officially for nearly a year atop a volcanic mountain on the island of Maui on a site owned an

This is the highest resolution image of the Sun’s surface ever taken. The National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope took the images from the summit of Haleakala, Maui, in Hawai‘i. In their announcement the organization wrote, "The images show a pattern of turbulent “boiling” plasma that covers the entire Sun. The cell-like structures — each about the size of Texas — are the signature of violent motions that transport heat from the inside of the Sun to its surface. That