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."
Special Effects (Score:4, Insightful)
I always like movies of the Sun a lot better when they accurately show how gauzy the Sun actually is, because it's really a ball of gas, not as solid as pictures like that show. Some color, and some of the stars beyond shining through, all make these movies of the Sun hanging in space look a lot cooler, and a lot less like peering through a microscope.
The first? (Score:4, Insightful)
BigBadBus writes "The BBC is reporting that NASA's twin spacecraft designed to obtain stereo images of the Sun have recorded the first Solar Tsunami."
Did you mean "the first footage of a solar tsunami", perhaps?
Re:But... (Score:5, Insightful)
The solar wind has a pressure, and you can measure it. And it changes. You could interpret that pressure as sound. It would be quiet by terrestrial standards, but an event like this would definitely make noise.
Of course, your microphone wouldn't bear much resemblance to a terrestrial one; measuring pressures that low is a tricky thing.
Kinda lame (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Holy cow (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:A Tsunami on the SUN! (Score:2, Insightful)
so your name should be something to do with magneto-acoustic waves... Magnecoustami sounds a bit lame, maybe someone else can come up with one better...
Re:Correction (Score:1, Insightful)
Or we could just stick to terms that everyone can understand that also sufficiently describe the phenomenon.
Re:Special Effects (Score:3, Insightful)
It would make a great movie
Re:Holy cow (Score:3, Insightful)
And I do like the "you must preview before you post" requirement, as