now THIS is a tsunami

this is from one of my favorite geek sites Astronomy Picture of the Day. what are you looking at? from the web site:

The rampaging tsunami took out some active filaments on the Sun, although many re-established themselves later. The solar tsunami spread at nearly one million kilometers per hour, and circled the entire Sun in a matter of minutes.

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