Cosmos

Mystery of the Sun’s “Super Grains”

New observations contradict the current model of solar surface convection.

By Jim Collins
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In the upper layers of the sun, hot plasma is constantly rising and falling, forming flow cells of various sizes. One of these is the so-called supergranules, whose inner workings are still a mystery. © Melissa Weiss
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