Posted on 05/22/2022 3:47:15 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Tsunamis this large don't happen on Earth. During 2006, a large solar flare from an Earth-sized sunspot produced a tsunami-type shock wave that was spectacular even for the Sun. Pictured here, the tsunami wave was captured moving out from active region AR 10930 by the Optical Solar Patrol Network (OSPAN) telescope in New Mexico, USA. The resulting shock wave, known technically as a Moreton wave, compressed and heated up gasses including hydrogen in the photosphere of the Sun, causing a momentarily brighter glow. The featured image was taken in a very specific red color emitted exclusively by hydrogen gas. The rampaging tsunami took out some active filaments on the Sun, although many re-established themselves later. The solar tsunami spread at nearly one million kilometers per hour, and circled the entire Sun in a matter of minutes.
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Just spectacular!
Looks like a grouse sitting in a tree…..eating a cheeseburger.
Yep, I spotted the cheeseburger too. Well done.
I don’t know if that cheeseburger was well done, boss.
It looked a little rare to me.
Dang!
Wish I had heard about it in time...
Maybe could’ve gotten there with my old surfboard...
(If Musk had been willing to transport an 88 year old domestic terrorist to that location...)
Just me, but that is disquieting.
but carbon....
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The Hunga Tonga sunspot tsunami.
I am glad I was not there to see it!
The photo must have been taken at night as it is in black and white.
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