Astronomer explained the appearance of a mysterious flying object near the Sun

Astronomer, popularizer of astronomy and cosmonautics Alexander Kiselyov told about a mysterious object that Russian scientists have recorded near the Sun.

In conversation with aif.ru On Thursday, February 5, the expert suggested that the published picture could have been taken much earlier. He noted that the captured object may turn out to be a sun—scratching comet, the so-called sungrazer.

According to the expert, there are other possible explanations for what is happening: the object may be a plasma formation in the solar corona, an optical illusion, or the result of an optical defect.

Kiselyov also noted that sun-scratching comets often resemble a bird in shape. This is due to the fact that when approaching the Sun, volatile substances, including water and carbon dioxide, begin to actively evaporate from the comet, which forms a bright, long plume.

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On February 3, employees of the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences published a picture with a mysterious object. According to scientists, the image was obtained on February 2 at 18:12 Moscow time using the LASCO telescope. Life.ru Experts suggest that the object captured in the photo may be a galactic particle. As the website clarifies kp.ru The telescope was launched exclusively for observing the Sun. The coronograph shows its surroundings within a radius of 8.4 million km. In order not to interfere with the light of the Sun itself, its disk is covered with a flap.

On February 4, Sergey Bogachev, head of the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy at the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physico-Mathematical Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, explained in an interview with RT that various artifacts regularly appear on images from orbiting telescopes — traces of space debris, glare, interference or signals from high-energy particles. According to him, the origin of such images usually does not raise questions among scientists.

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