NEW DELHI: Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institution of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), have, in a breakthrough, found hidden miniature plasma loops that may help unravel the Sun’s deepest mysteries. The loops are small and short-lived, and have, till date, stayed hidden, but these may reveal how the Sun stores and unleashes magnetic energy, said researchers at the IIA. The coronal loops, found in the Sun’s outer layer, are arc-like, beautiful structures of hot plasma that glow at a temperature over a...