Last year on May 19, the Nasa Stereo Consortium recorded a video of a tsunami taking place in the sun’s atmosphere. This tsunami lasted for about 35 minutes and it spread across the entire distance of the sun. A video can be seen of this tsunami on news.bbc.co.uk. It was caused by a huge explosion near the sun. This sent out an enormous wave of pressure that sped very quickly across the sun. David Long stated this incredible fact shortly after the video was captured: “The energy released in these explosions is phenomenal; about two billion times the annual world energy consumption in just a fraction of a second.”
Solar tsunamis were discovered about ten years ago by a Soho spacecraft. Initially, thess tsunamis did not make sense to any scientists because they thought the waves were traveling too slowly. However, they later discovered that the speed was faster than they thought. They finally were able to record a video of a solar tsunami in the suns atmosphere. These tsunamis are very remarkable. They use extremely large amounts of energy and they travel at remarkable speeds. Read the entire article here.
Ironically, I saw the same article at the same source and was about to post this.
This is fascinating due to the fact that outside of our planet occurances happen on places such as our sun. Even with our own tsunamis they are little in comparison to what has occured on the sun at their speeds and energy. If the same force were to occur with our tsunamis, there would be nothing left of the carribean (which has a tsunami season that destroys constantly) and the pacific islands.