The Sun Now!

[GaiaLove]

Originally Posted by Luminari

Glad its the far side

Are we going to feel any of it Richard or is it all facing away from the Earth?

I don't believe so, however the SOHO B spacecraft is showing a new region that looks fairly active, this area is rotating towards us and should provide some interesting views next week.

On another note, earlier this year there was a rather incredible occurrence.
A solar tsunami, quite literally a 100,000 km high wall of fire and magnetism expanding outwards from a central point at 900 kph.
technically called a magneto -hydrodynamical wave it can pack as much power as 2400 megatons of tnt.

check this out..

Originally Posted by NASA

A solar tsunami can be seen as a dark wave spreading across the surface of the Sun (small sphere on left). The greyed-out band has been enhanced for contrast. The green shows the solar flare or CME that has caused the tsunami.