Parker is the current holder of office (as of Sep 2026). Recent reports: Sun images reveal vortex instabilities; a black-hole star is born. Parker’s actions in governance/status are shaping responses to this cosmic event.
Scientists have captured the Sun’s surface at unprecedented resolution with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope and other instruments and have identified widespread Kelvin–Helmholtz vortices—500–2,000km spirals of magnetised plasma. The team has linked these instabilities to how magnetic energy cascades to smaller scales and feeds flares and coronal mass ejections that produce space weather.