Creepy close-up images of the sun reveal yarn-like strands, dark pores, and a 'light bridge' crossing a decaying sunspot

The sun looks surprisingly stringy and porous in a series of new images from the world's most powerful solar telescope. It's almost creepy.
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has been observing the sun from the Hawaiian island of Maui since it first opened in 2020. That year, the observatory captured the most high-resolution images ever taken of the sun, showing its surface in unprecedented detail.
Creepy close-up images of the sun reveal yarn-like strands, dark pores, and a 'light bridge' crossing a decaying sunspot