Is this what people are seeing next to the sun?

Is this what people are showing video of? Could it be that a lot of people don't see the same thing because these people took the videos at the right time? What is it?




starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov...





Deebo

Wow, clear back in '94 and '95. Brown dwarf too.

Thats not our sun BTW incase you thought it was...

Gliese 229B

Forgive my ignorance. Seems I have stumbled upon your post before seeing the video you reference in you post. Can you post link to "what people are seeing next to the sun"?

how long was that thing by the sun for?

Are you sure it is Gliese-something? Maybe that is a picture of the Sun and the little dot is Gliese. Don't know...

Stereologist please? (what , I did it!)

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Excuse my ignorance, but what does this have to do with 2012?

Cheers

Originally posted by downunder666
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Excuse my ignorance, but what does this have to do with 2012?

Cheers

Umm, if I am not mistaking, people seeing a 2nd sun next to our sun claim the whole Nibiru thing, therefore I thought it belonged here.

Deebo

Originally posted by TheRealJayZ
Forgive my ignorance. Seems I have stumbled upon your post before seeing the video you reference in you post. Can you post link to "what people are seeing next to the sun"?

I wasn't aware that what I posted was a video. Sorry.

Deebo

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Afraid not...

Gliese 229 (also written as Gl 229 or GJ 229) is a red dwarf star about 19 light years away in the constellation Lepus. It has 58% of the mass of the Sun,[4] 69% of the Sun's radius,[5] and a very low projected rotation velocity of 1 km/s at the stellar equator

The larger star is Gliese 229 and the brown dwarf is Gliese 229b

en.wikipedia.org...

There is no way that is what people are claiming to see.
As it was mentioned that is not our sun in the first place so it can't be. It is a picture of Gliese 229 (the big one) andGliese 229b(the small brown dwarf) which is 19 light years away and taken by hubble.

So in the answer to your question.
No, it is not.
But it is a good example of the fact that a brown dwarf can be detetected, a brown dwarf is not going to sneak up on us in the middle of the night or something.

edit: What Chad said