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Monster Waves on the Sun are Real
News Flash: Huge object in out solar system does everything extra huge.
NASA:
The scale of the thing was staggering. It rose up higher than Earth itself and rippled out from a central point in a circular pattern millions of kilometers in circumference. Skeptical observers suggested it might be a shadow of some kind—a trick of the eye—but surely not a real wave.
“Now we know,” says Joe Gurman of the Solar Physics Lab at the Goddard Space Flight Center. “Solar tsunamis are real.”
Makes tsunami’s on earth seem like pebble ripples. Not even. More like the ripples made by bugs as they walk on surface tension.