Jincheng Wang

The Sun sometimes produces flares — bright explosions that hurl streams of charged particles into space. On April 22, 2021, one such flare occurred in an active region where a dark sunspot was crossed by a bright "bridge" of hotter gas.

The cosmological kitchen is full of invisible ingredients. Dark matter, like an invisible scaffold, keeps galaxies from flying apart, while dark energy, like yeast in dough, makes space expand ever faster.