Solar Tsunami

Sequences of STEREO satellite images of a solar tsunami blasting across the Sun's million degree atmosphere. Solar tsunamis are launched by huge explosions near the Sun's atmosphere, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These waves can travel at over a million kilometers per hour. The tsunami took place on 19th May 2007 and lasted for about 35 minutes, reaching peak speeds around 20 minutes after the initial blast. The observations were made by a team from Trinity College, Dublin.

Solar tsunamis were observed before with the SOHO spacecraft, but this is the first time they have been observed in four different wavelengths corresponding to four different temperatures, enabling the team to see how the wave moved through the different layers of the solar atmosphere. This was possible because STEREO observes images at all four wavelengths at a much higher time cadence than SOHO.
For more on Solar Tsunamis, The STEREO Mission, and other discoveries see
http://figbranch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=292&am...
This Video Narrated by Jim Newton

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• STEREO
• solar
• tsunami
• sun
• flare
• space
• sytem
• science

[madarauchiha1218]

Fake....

[FigBranchcom]

@madarauchiha1218

Lol.. what is it you do not believe? Is it that the earth is round?

[MagicalThanks]

@xintrepidxmindx Hm.. I choose education over being a complete retard, like you.

[xintrepidxmindx]

omg what will all you losers do without internet..OMG.. You might even go outside.. 

[LadyGaGaLover1114]

@xintrepidxmindx wow i love the outside and i love computers, but mostly i love my family! AND I AM NOT A MOTHERFUCKING LOSER BITCH!!!

[kyliexkreep]

@MagicalThanks Just wait until he discovers that you can lick windows from the inside aswell.

[sixproph3tsix]

Um, correction: This is called a CME

Coronal Mass Ejection.

[lauris15151]

its 277777 m/s speed of light is 2.9 million m/s

[darkfox900]

@XardasDensrai Light travels at about 300,000 Km/second, these are measured in Km/hour, which is much different. In other words, it would take light a bit more than 3 seconds to travel the same distance it takes one of these to travel in 1 hour. Still, they are very fast :)

[XardasDensrai]

@darkfox900 more than 3 times the speed of light

[theoneandonly690]

@xintrepidxmindx what cus i pick watching an intrsting video over boozing on the street corner.....

[Armuotas]

@xintrepidxmindx

And do what exactly? Look at the Sun through binoculars...one eye at the time ? That would be two times only, then what ?