The clearest pictures ever taken of a solar flare have been captured by the world’s largest solar telescope in Hawaii.

The record-breaking images from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope are the highest-resolution ever attained, and they revealed astonishing details within a flare that was four times the diameter of Earth.

The coronal loops seen within the flare are very fine strands averaging about 48.2 kilometers (approximately 30 miles) wide, with some loops as narrow as 21 kilometers (about 13 miles), the smallest coronal loops ever imaged.

The observations could reshape how we understand the Sun’s magnetic architecture and improve space weather forecasting.

“This is the first time the Inouye Solar Telescope has ever observed an X-class flare,” says Cole Tamburri , the study’s l

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