>>6432687This is a LARP. This image is normal. Planets pass through the view all the time. Also, for people who don't understand what we are looking at and think this image is being censored or something, that disc in the middle blocks out the sun and the dark shadow is from the small arm that hold that disc in place to block the sun from the instruments view.
They need the sun blocked out as it is far too bright. It overwhelms the instruments. The point here is to be able to see CMEs leaving the sun, not the suns surface itself. CMEs are Coronal Mass Ejections.
By the way, all these sites that supposedly down, they aren't. The 3rd party sites just aren't able to show some of the SOHO data. NASA's SOHO movie maker website is down but NASA is still publishing info daily.
As for what is going on on the sun, it's actually really calm right now. After all we are in the bottom of the 24th solar cycle. It should be calm. There are 1 or 2 tiny sunspot groups. No flaring, no filaments, no earth directed CMEs. The most we have are fairly big coronal holes that are Earth facing. We've connected magnetically to the Earth facing coronal hole and that brings with it increased odds on Earth of more frequent and strong earthquakes.
Don't be surprised to see one or two 7.0 or greater earthquakes in the next 48 hours.
