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2. Debunked on Pi day
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 11:11 AM
Mar 2012
Solar Eruption Mistaken for Refueling UFO Spaceship
C. Alex Young, a solar astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center who runs a website called The Sun Today, explained that the prominence is situated below a tunnel-shape feature called a filament channel. "When you look at it from the edge of the sun, what you actually see is a spherical object. You're actually looking down the tunnel. And this tunnel sits up top of the filament," Young explained at The Sun Today. He added that the development of these structures is quite common

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NOOOoooooo! They are stealing our sunlight. liberal N proud Mar 2012 #1
Debunked on Pi day intaglio Mar 2012 #2
What a kooky website arcane1 Mar 2012 #3
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