A new study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, has produced a compressed 14-year movie of the sun observed in gamma rays, a visualization tool which revealed that—contrary to the expected uniform distribution of these high energy photons—the solar disk can become brighter on the polar regions. This tendency for the sun's glow in the gamma rays to be dominant at the highest latitudes is evident during the peak of solar activity, as could be seen in June of 2014.