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that does not look like the sun
posted on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 7:17pm
Gigantic "tsunami" captured on Sun
Coronal Mass Ejection: View of solar event taken in ultraviolet light by the SOHO spacecraft.
Courtesy NASACheck out the first footage of a gigantic “tsunami” captured plowing through our Sun’s atmosphere. The event was triggered by some sort of explosion on the Sun such as a solar flare or coronal mass ejection (CME). The outward-spreading wave spanned the nearly one million kilometers (600,000 miles) of the solar disk in just half an hour. But it’s the amount of energy released that is truly mind-boggling. According to one of the researchers, these explosions release “about two billion times the annual world energy consumption in just a fraction of a second.”
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