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Related: About this forumMysterious object seen refuelling from Sun
London: An orbiting NASA space telescope has captured the footage of a planet-sized object flying close to the sun, and extending a "refuelling tube" into the sun's surface.
The black orb later flies off into space, the Daily Mail reported.
The video captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and put on YouTube has inspired a wave of speculation.
A YouTube user has challenged experts to explain the strange object.
http://zeenews.india.com/news/space/mysterious-object-seen-refuelling-from-sun_763790.html
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Mysterious object seen refuelling from Sun (Original Post)
n2doc
Mar 2012
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liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)1. NOOOoooooo! They are stealing our sunlight.
Living in Cleveland we need all the sunlight we can get.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)2. Debunked on Pi day
Solar Eruption Mistaken for Refueling UFO Spaceship
C. Alex Young, a solar astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center who runs a website called The Sun Today, explained that the prominence is situated below a tunnel-shape feature called a filament channel. "When you look at it from the edge of the sun, what you actually see is a spherical object. You're actually looking down the tunnel. And this tunnel sits up top of the filament," Young explained at The Sun Today. He added that the development of these structures is quite common
arcane1
(38,613 posts)3. What a kooky website
They reference a YouTube video but don't link to it, mentions a Daily Mail story but no link, then quotes NASA with no link