What is this?

[mrt127]

It's near the Sun I have no idea what it is, apparently it has been recently detected, any ideas on what it is?

I think it's Vulpin, A planet that was thought to orbit the sun closer then mercury but was never found.

[smjjames]

I think you mean Vulcan, not vulpin.

It looks like a tornado to me. I think those have been reported on the sun before. If you turn the image upside down, you can get a better idea of it

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[vh]

No it wouldn't actually. Not enough force unless it was a gas planet. Assuming it's rocky, it'd happily orbit.

[atomic7732]

Looks like some magnetic tube that is pushing the plasma away from the region inside it. Can't be the right terminology but that's how I'd describe it.

[vh]

maybe a comet blew up somewhere and we somehow missed it?

[Darvince]

I think it's a very thick area of the corona.

[smjjames]

Looks like some magnetic tube that is pushing the plasma away from the region inside it. Can't be the right terminology but that's how I'd describe it.

Or a magnetic vortex?

[atomic7732]

Any info on what time that image is and what band and satellite? I could try to get some more data and stuff on it.

[smjjames]

Any info on what time that image is and what band and satellite? I could try to get some more data and stuff on it.

Or better yet, a source link please?

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[vh]

Well the density of mercury venus and earth at all around 5.3 . According to wikipedia, it's less

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


the outer ring is the liquid roche limit which applies to objects that act like a more liquidy. The inner ring is for rigid bodies

[mrt127]

I can't quite remember what the gas is called but isn't there large traces of "this Gas", that usually belongs to a gas giant and isn't found on stars, on the sun? This maybe some of the Gas from an inner Gas Giant, that maybe have been slingshot  in.

And I can't find the source, it was something like "Perhaps a new planet."

[vh]

I found it by using google image source. Couldn't find any actual facts, but all the internets seems to think it's an alien spaceship come to refuel on solar plasma (hydrogen i guess).

[Omnigeek6]

I can't quite remember what the gas is called but isn't there large traces of "this Gas", that usually belongs to a gas giant and isn't found on stars, on the sun? This maybe some of the Gas from an inner Gas Giant, that maybe have been slingshot  in.

And I can't find the source, it was something like "Perhaps a new planet."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_%28hypothetical_planet%29

Note that objects larger than 60 km have been ruled out. Simply put, modern instruments can detect planets like the hypothetical "Vulcan" around stars hundreds of light-years away. A planet inside Mercury's orbit would stick out like a sore thumb.

There are only two hypothetical planets which are being seriously considered right now; Tyche (believed to orbit at around 15,000 AU) and a possible object at somewhere over 100 AU which could be responsible for the sharp outer edge of the Kuiper belt.

[smjjames]

http://www.space.com/15076-huge-tornado-churns-sun-surface-close-video.html

Space.com just posted this up and since you can briefly see that tube structure, I think the pic above is the same phenomenon. The sound effect is obviously added.