Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near Mercury

Is a giant, cloaked spaceship orbiting around Mercury?

That's been the speculation from some corners aftera camera onboard
NASA's STEREO spacecraft caught a wave of electronically charged
material shooting out from the sun and hitting Mercury.

Theorists have seized on the images captured from the "coronal mass
ejection" (CME) last week as suggestive of alien life hanging out in our
own cosmic backyard. Specifically, the solar flare washing over Mercury
appears to hit another object of comparable size. "It's cylindrical on
either side and has a shape in the middle. It definitely looks like a
ship to me, and very obviously, it's cloaked," YouTube-user siniXster
said in his video commentary on the footage, which has generated
hundreds of thousands of views this week. Now, how this user was able to
determine that the object was "obviously" a cloaked spaceship with no
other natural explanation remains as much a mystery as the object
itself.

Of course, there's another scientifically sanctioned explanation for the
curious images, though we're not certain that skeptics and UFO
enthusiasts such as SiniXster will endorse it. Natalie Wolchover of
Life's Little Mysteries put the question to scientists in the solar
physics branch at the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).
They're the people who analyze data from the Heliospheric Imager-1
(HI-1)--better known in this context as the camera that shot the footage
in question.

Head NRL group scientist Russ Howard and lead ground systems engineer
Nathan Rich say the mysterious object is in fact Mercury itself. And
what we're seeing in the footage is the equivalent of Mercury's wake,
"where the planet was on the previous day," as it travels through the
solar system on its natural gravitational path:

To make the relatively faint glow of a coronal mass ejection stand out
against the bright glare of space—caused by interplanetary dust and the
stellar/galactic background—the NRL scientists must remove as much
background light as possible. They explained that they determine what
light is background light, and thus can be subtracted out, by
calculating the average amount of light that entered each camera pixel
on the day of the CME event and on the previous day. Light appearing in
the pixels on both days is considered to be background light and is
removed from the footage of the CME. The remaining light is then
enhanced.
The analysts say the practice works even better when applied to far-off
objects such as stars, which don't move much relative to the sun. But
for moving objects, especially planets, the process is a little more
complicated. And making matters even trickier is Mercury's staus as the
closest planet to the sun.

"When [this averaging process] is done between the previous day and the
current day and there is a feature like a planet, this introduces dark
(negative) artifacts in the background where the planet was on the
previous day, which then show up as bright areas in the enhanced image,"
Rich explained in an email.

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This is nuts! Some crazy shit been goin on lately man..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6X96xI1gLdQ

Wont let me embed...but thats the video

Dude, fucking 2012 is real.

they forgot to mention where the "giant cloaked spaceship" comment was taken from a youtube comment... apparantley youtubers are now scientists.

41OMaXiMuS wrote:they forgot to mention where the "giant cloaked spaceship" comment was taken from a youtube comment... apparantley youtubers are now scientists.

There's a lot of people who study the stereo and seechi feeds....Its all up on nasa.gov

I dunno, I'm not a believer. This is another false alarm IMO. I don't see why they would need to cloak their spaceship.

Probably just some kid of anomaly we aren't familiar with.

41OMaXiMuS wrote:I dunno, I'm not a believer. This is another false alarm IMO. I don't see why they would need to cloak their spaceship.

Probably just some kid of anomaly we aren't familiar with.

NO...ITS ALIEN!

thats fucking crazy

I'll believe it's alien when we're all dead lol. Remeinds me of the Death Star though.