STEREO , NASA ’s twin spacecraft mission getting a nice suntan and taking tridimensional figure of speech of the Sun , has show a solar tsunami for the first fourth dimension . The tsunami , a circular shockwave which traveled a million kilometers ( 621,371 international nautical mile ) in just 30 minute , is because of a huge detonation on the star ’s surface . STEREO take the images thanks to its raw tv camera which , unlike the previous solar commission SOHO , are fast enough to entrance the wave in detail , confirm the antecedently theoretical extremist - speedy nature of the titanic waves that travel through our home star from prison term to time . look — did I say Home Star ?
Yes , this whole Sun thing was a big fat blistering excuse to put up some dependable videos . [ NASAviaBBC News ]
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