‘Tsunami’ sweeps across the Sun

Remarkable images of a “solar tsunami” spreading across the face of the Sun have been captured by a pair of spacecraft.The tsunami of superheated gas, caused by a huge explosion known as a coronal mass ejection, took only 35 minutes to cross almost the entire Sun.The solar tsunami, last May 19, was watched by Nasa’s twin Stereo probes. David Long, who led the research team of astronomers from Trinity College Dublin, said: “The energy released in these explosions is about two billion times the annual world energy consumption in a fraction of a second.”

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