Sun Tsunami

I didn't know the sun had a 'surface' as such...

As its one big gaseous ball of nuclear fission / fusion, I would guess that the 'surface' would be pretty mobile anyway!!

John.

The "surface" of the Sun is generally (and arbitrarily) agreed to be the depth at which the photosphere is no longer transparent. But you're right, the Sun is gaseous all the way through, even at the core where the pressure is estimated at 3.4 × 10⁸ atm to 2.25 × 10¹¹ atm, and the density is about 150 times that of water. Even so, it is gaseous because of the extreme temperature, estimated at around 13.6 × 10⁶K.

-e

Very interesting. Our Sun seems to getting very playful these days. This is sort of unusual (according to the scientists). But then again, this is the first time in accepted history that sun is being studied at this minuscle level. So if the Sun goes bump in the night, people are jumping out of their skins because they are seeing this for the first time.

This is definitely something to follow (aka 2012 connations also)