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Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:31AM from the elaborate-advertising-campaign-for-new-x-files-movie dept.

jojo_it writes "NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed a gigantic spot on the sun's corona, that takes the shape of a black triangle. The spot is visible on the AIA 193 channel [of NASA's solar dynamics observatory] since March 11th. 2012 doomsday-theorists should be delighted."

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what by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-14 02:36 · Score: 3, Insightful

maybe I'm blind, but I don't see ****.
Re:Oh So That's Why NASA Has Little Funding by the_saint1138 · 2012-03-14 02:48 · Score: 3, Insightful

Indeed. Possibly the worst summary I've ever read here.
Re:Better video of the "triangle". by Dan+East · 2012-03-14 02:55 · Score: 4, Insightful

Yes, that video is much higher quality, especially when he zooms in on the anomaly. However the part at the end where he suggests the sun is "giving birth" to a new planet is just totally out there.

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Why doesn't /. go with the scientific summary. by Beelzebud · 2012-03-14 04:08 · Score: 3, Insightful

You would think that a good summary would be posted here, of all places, that told what this was, and left the conspiracy theory nonsense to the comments section at youtube. So instead of news for nerds, we get news for conspiracy minded idiots.