Tsunami Spotted on the Surface of the Sun 164
BigBadBus writes "The BBC is reporting that NASA's twin spacecraft designed to obtain stereo images of the Sun have recorded a Solar Tsunami. The feature includes a fascinating movie of the images captured."
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"The visible surface of the Sun, the photosphere, is the layer below which the Sun becomes opaque to visible light."
So there you go. Not something I'd ever really thought about either to be honest, but I guess someone at some point has.
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The little bit you might be able to see through is just the very upper atmosphere (probably gaps under prominences and CMEs), and the best views of that kind of stuff aren't in visible light anyway, since the sun is brightest in visible light, and tends to overwhelm instruments and eyes. For an image in other wavelengths, I don't know that it's stars you're seeing (could just be image artifacts), and the color is false anyway.
I've been studying this stuff for class, and this really is a cool movie & event in its own right. I mean, judging from the article, this wave was moving at close to
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http://www1.gly.bris.ac.uk/~george/noises/text.html [bris.ac.uk]
Doesn't sound like rocks grinding to me...