what am i looking at?

weird video soho ahead .. weird blast , and a creepy ghost face in the top right corner, dont know what to think about it, gimmie some input ats.

Hmmm i have no idea, but it does not look good at all.

reply to post by matrix12


The ‘Ghost face’ is a Solar Prominence emanating from the sun, which is off the right hand side of the screen. The ‘blast’ is either a maneuvering thruster, or a gust of charged particles (solar wind) hitting the satellite.

dude they blew up my car lame

reply to post by defcon5


haven't seen anything like it, thanks for your input!

reply to post by matrix12


An example of a particle storm hitting SOHO

Just prior to this, an X-class solar flare had been recorded near the center of the solar disk by the spacecraft's Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT), observing the Sun in Fe XII at 195 Angstroms. In other words, the halo event was heading for Earth.
We have collected some of the images and movies from this spectacular event, including "observations" of the torrent of energetic particles that arrived about half an hour later. Such particle storms cause snow on the images as the cameras' electronic detectors are bombarded with high-energy particles.