Breaking wave 'big as the USA' spied on Sun's surface
NASA boffins, staring into the Sun with a new space telescope, say they have detected unthinkably enormous waves rolling across the star's hot surface - as if a gigantic breaker of the sort beloved by surfers were scaled up to the size of the United States. Giant breakers of the solar corona. Credit: NASA/SDO/Astrophysical …
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By El Reg standards...
"big as the USA" would be translated to 473.000 Wales/4,2 Congos. No more of that silly imperial/metric nonsense, please.
Waleses?
Can I have it in Jamaicas please.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-ice-shelf-collapse-picture.html
@ ravenviz
Sorry, no. As the El Reg Standards Soviet declared, here are the relevant units:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html
However, one Jamaica is 0,53 Wales(es?) or 0,0047 Democratic Republics of Congo.
Imperial measurements
In Belgium they might consider Congos to be an imperial measurement
"NASA boffins, staring into the Sun..."
Every 5 year old knows not to stare directly into the Sun.
Which USA?
Is that all the states, the continental states, or the contiguous states?
for an older photo of this sort of thing
http://www.b3ta.com/board/2219607
"Moving at 6-14Km/s"
or roughly M17-M42
Sadly if it's density is *anything* like most plasmas you'd need a board the size of truck to surf it (assuming the radiation didn't cook you first)
One thing about space weather, it's *huge*.
Surfs up.
28G
Means our surfer will weigh in at about 4.5 Mini coopers, quite the handicap for even the most adept of plasma surfers.
Also
moving at 6-14kms might make Clidro's a bit tricky. Won't have to worry about any super-sonic handling anomolies, as there won't be any air.
That and it'll be a tad warmer and brighter than you'd be used to. And radioactive.
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