During the night of last Monday, April 28, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as POThe published a new video of the Sun in which he allegedly managed to capture a “Giant Orb” passing in front of the main source of light and heat for our planet Earth, located about 150 million kilometers.
The images went viral on social networks, and some conspiracy theorists on digital platforms assured that the giant orb was an unidentified flying object (UFO), Because, according to his own interpretation, “the aerial phenomenon stopped, floated for a moment, approached the sun and then disappeared from sight.”
“I guess we will have to settle for not receiving any response and seeing how this is hidden under the carpet, just like the other phenomena anomalous unidentified so obvious that we see every day, “a user published in Xwho even suggested that the cosmic event caused the Mass blackout In Spain.
However, workers of The United States Government Agency They indicated that the images showed the moon eclipseing the sun in a lunar transit visible only from space: “On April 27, the moon blocked 23% of the sun in a Partial eclipseseen only by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, “NASA added.
“Mysterious giant orb” captured by NASA
Given this situation, the National Office of Atmospheric Administration (NOAAfor its acronym in English), the United States scientific agency in charge of studying and predicting changes in the atmosphere, space and sun, said that “the video captured the Moon as a stain In the frame, moving in front of the burning sun. ”
The NOA also said that the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory, a Space telescope thrown on February 11, 2010 to study the Sun, “it also shows the moon as a very bright giant orb that travels at high speeds through space”; And it is for that reason that in some recordings could generate confusion.
Given the circumstances, the agency responsible for the Civil Space Program in the US explained the difference between a lunar transit and a solar eclipse, Since, instead of being observed from Earth, “this occurs when a ship, such as the Solar Dynamics Observatory, captures the Moon passing in front of another object that is observing.”
“During these events, the moon appears as a circle that moves through the surface bright that is being monitored by the observatory, a vision that has sometimes been confused with a UFO Near the sun, “NASA argued, which revealed that during the final transit of this series, the moon will cover 62 % of the solar surface.
NASA subsequently reported that the Solar Dynamics Observatory has been observing the Sun during 15 uninterrupted years, and that its mission is to continuously monitor the star closest to the Earth, taking high -resolution images and videos of its surface and its atmosphere, composed of hydrogen and helium.
“The solar dynamic observatory studies all the activity of the sun, such as stains Solar, the eruptions Solar and the ejections of coronal mass (CME), in order to help scientists better understand how this star affects the space climate around the earth, “NASA concluded on its official website.