Space experts

[kwerk]

What is the giant sperm looking thing at the bottom left? Don't say spaceship refueling.

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/aiahmi/latest.php?t=aia_0171&r=512

 

[Tefal]

Solar flare maybe?

 

[twist3d0n3]

it's a space snake having a poo in the sun

 

[Alex_6n2]

Looks like some sort of eruption. Certainly seems to be a lot of energy dissipated at the surface when it finishes

 

[Riddell]

Coronal mass ejection.

 

[Participant]

A giant sperm?

 

[One]

Massive explosion.

 

[RomanNose]

A massive pea attached to a massive piece of rope.

 

[One]

It's a film studio in America.

 

[Cosimo]

Solar flare/coronal mass ejection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection

http://spaceweather.com/glossary/filaments.html

You might as well visit the SDO site:

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

 

[SlyReaper]

Doesn't look big enough to be a coronal mass ejection, it's just a flare. The reason it looks dark at first is because the sun's surface and corona is a mess of tangled magnetic fields, and you sometimes get regions like that which keep the coronal plasma out. Of course it's hard to explain the exact process behind it because nobody really knows. We don't know much about the sun; if we did, we might be able to predict flares and CMEs.

 

[kwerk]

found an explanation, just a kind of illusion with the filter settings.

 

[JBod]

What is the giant sperm looking thing at the bottom left? Don't say spaceship refueling.

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/aiahmi/latest.php?t=aia_0171&r=512

It is times like these that I remember why the internet is awesome. I am sorry but a rotating image of our Sun (our local friggin star!) from the last 24 hours just there... available for free for anyone to look at. Amazing.

 

[yhack]

Swamp gas refueling.

 

[Jono8]

spaceship refueling

 

[Macky]

I think it might be a

spaceship refueling.

 

[Emphacy]

Not sure what the hell your sperm look like mate, but I don't see anything alike!

 

[jakspyder]

Now they just need to pop on over to earth, publicly drop of the tech so we can build our own space fleet and the rest.. pretty much mass effect really.

 

[anything I don't mind]

You could have just asked me directly, space expert is my middle name.