New images of the sun reveal superfine threads of glowing plasma
The filaments are in solar regions that had appeared rather bland
![close-up of the plasma filaments on the sun](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/041520_cc_sun_feat_rev.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
A delicate comb-over of plasma filaments never seen before appears in this image (in the upper right part of the box) from NASA’s Hi-C suborbital solar telescope. The image of the full sun is from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
University of Central Lancashire, NASA