Tsunami-like blast wave rips across the Sun 2

For more information:
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn10765

Watch this video of a blast wave that sweeps across the face of the Sun, rippling outward from the site of a large solar flare. This video shows the brief disappearance of filaments.


Credit: NSO/AURA/NSF and USAF Research Laboratory.

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[petieng]

What time scale does this happen in? I'm guessing the counter in the top right is Hrs/mins/Secs?

[newscientistvideo]

Hi petieng, yes that's right. According to the article we linked to, the blast "occurred near one edge of the Sun's face and traveled to the other edge in about 30 minutes".

Michael Marshall, online editorial assistant

[holonat]

That's cool!

[katanoob]

@elephantom12 yeah? and what's the point? insignifiant or not, we live and we thrive.

[extremewookie]

Blah blah we're so insignificant and all that CRAP.

So what if our bodies aren't lightyears long? We're SENTIENT, my bros and bro-ettes. In a million years or so (wild guess, of course) we might have the ability to create cosmic events that dwarf this GARBAGE. In a million years we might be eating tsunami-like blast waves for BREAKFAST

[cndnborn]

Considering the size of planet Earth in relation to the size of the sun,... I'd say that explosion would be powerful enough to blow this planet to pieces. Makes our little Atomic and Hydrogen bombs equivalent to nothing more than popcorn poping in the microwave.

[okuma0kuma]

takes a fire triangle to ignite fire so it wouldnt ignite untill jupiter was absorbed below the corona to spectactular sun storms

[igotmydell]

omg!!did it like just make like so many rounds?that wave must be so bloody fast like omg.i am just totally baffeled

[DidntKnowWhatToPut1]

That wave was going really fast! When you consider the size of the sun

[Stonybroker]

if jupiter was to collide with the sun, it would simply ignite, as it is just a ball of gas. What i'm struggling to imagine is the speed of the wave, incredible.

[k5lta]

sunquake

[elephantom12]

The largest star in the universe we have found has a volume of over 10,000,000,000 suns we are just insignificant creatures in this universe.