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Mysterious object seen refuelling from sun
Wednesday March 14, 2012 09:55:11 PM,
IANS
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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.
However, the US space agency had an ordinary explanation.
It said it was not a visitor from another solar system, or a
planet being born out of the surface of the sun.
It was a solar "filament" -- a feature extending out from the sun
which forms over the course of a day, and can extend thousands of
miles into space.
NASA says: "A solar prominence (also known as a filament) is a
large, bright feature extending outward from the sun's surface.
Prominences are anchored to the sun's surface and extend outwards
into the sun's hot outer atmosphere, called the corona.
"Scientists are still researching how and why prominences are
formed. An erupting prominence occurs when such a structure
becomes unstable and bursts outward, releasing the plasma."
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