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This is the surface of a star! Huge convection cells rise like bubbles at the surface of boiling water forming a bumpy, puzzle-piece surface. The magnetic fields of sunspots pull the plasma into long streamers.


Credit: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences/The Institute for Solar Physics
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