Monday Astronomy Picture Ponderings 5/23/2022

6 min readMay 23, 2022

Our deceptively active star

A close-up gif of a solar “tsunami” of a solar flare “bursting” and rippling across the solar surface, starting from the top left of the picture of the Sun. The image is in black and white with the solar flare appearing brighter than the rest of the sun as the released energy is hotter than the rest of the Sun’s surface. — **A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun**, from NASA APOD 5/22/2022, **Image Credit:** NSO/AURA/NSF and USAF Research Laboratory

Welcome back to the Monday Astronomy Picture Ponderings (MAPPs) series where every Monday I pick one of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) entries from the past seven days to focus on in some way.

The Sun is a fairly constant feature in our lives. Even in the areas of the world where you won’t see the Sun for 6 months of the…

Monday Astronomy Picture Ponderings 5/23/2022

Written by Sarah-Marie