Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near mercury

[StellarViking]

by odens beard i live for this shit!
its bull that someones trying to say its mercury, someone always has a convieniently bs explination.

They're saying that it's the wake caused by it moving through the matter on its normal orbit. Much like when a ship moves through the water, the wake displaced by the moving bow eventually rushes back together in a sort of eddy, much like the matter here is. Not to trample all over your beliefs, but what I'd like to know is why the creator of a three-minute Youtube video somehow holds more sway to you than an institution that has been at pretty much the forefront of astronomical research for the past fifty years.

Also, Odin*

 

[Thaliur]

If it was an Alien craft, they got pretty fucking fried.

It was probably space debris(like asteroids) being irradiated by the solar flare.

That is pretty close to my first impression. Maybe one of Mercury's moons got in the way and the flash is the solar flare blowing a cloud of burning irradiated dust off of it.

Mercury has moons?
You might be on to something, though. The image enhancement explanation does sound convincing, and is probably true, but since it's a 2-dimensional image of 3-dimensional space, something showing up near mercury does not necessarily mean it appeared near mercury. Just in almost the same direction.

We really need proper 3D cameras...

 

[Yak Johnson]

I'm thinking we take an expedition, enslave whatever lives there, and replace Columbus day with a holiday commemorating that.

In all seriousness, it's just Mercury.

 

[Patrick Corners]

Its Quite obvious its the Cylons coming to finish the job they started, to bad we dont have a giant space battleship to fight them. Ok on a serious note its probably a visible wake of the planet caused by debris much like a boat. It was vaporize by the heat from the release of material by the sun

 

[Aussie502]

We should nuke it, just to be safe.

This is the only logical conclusion.

 

[Chicago Ted]

OMG it's the Babylonian Brotherhood !!!!!! quick someone call David Icke!!!! we must stop those damn blood-drinking, shape-shifting reptilian humanoids from the Alpha Draconis star system who are the force behind a worldwide conspiracy directed at controlling humanity.

"You can't believe everything you see on the internet" -George Washington

"80% of the quotes on the internet are made up" - Abraham Lincoln

60% of the time, quotes on the internet are wrong all of the time - Winston Churchill

"90% of Statistics are made up on the spot" - Darth Vader

"67% of internet quotes have something to do about your mother. You know, the one I fucked!" - Mahatma Gandhi

Also, that's no UFO. It's a space station.

 

[gbemery]

Holy galactic anomalies Batman, it's the Joker...I mean obviously it's the Babylon 4 station and the Minbari simply cloaked it and placed it in orbit around Mercury after they were done using it as a base of operations in their war against the Shadows.

We should nuke it, just to be safe.

I like the way you think sir, better to air on the side of caution.

OMG it's the Babylonian Brotherhood !!!!!! quick someone call David Icke!!!! we must stop those damn blood-drinking, shape-shifting reptilian humanoids from the Alpha Draconis star system who are the force behind a worldwide conspiracy directed at controlling humanity.

"You can't believe everything you see on the internet" -George Washington

"80% of the quotes on the internet are made up" - Abraham Lincoln

60% of the time, quotes on the internet are wrong all of the time - Winston Churchill

"90% of Statistics are made up on the spot" - Darth Vader

"One potato, two potato, three potato, four..." - George W. Bush

Now, how this user was able to determine that the object was "obviously" a cloaked spaceship with no other natural explanation remains as much a mystery as the object itself.

Because he obviously subscribes to the "Ancient Aliens" ideology of the scientific method.

 

[Creator002]

Looks like the Starship Enterprise to me. Oh, God. Please let it be so. I wanna see Spock!

Seriously though, interesting find.

 

[mooncalf]

I'm failing to see why an object in space must necessarily be an alien spacecraft, let alone a cloaked alien spacecraft. I'm keen to see more analysis of this though, space anomalies are fun and often lead to exciting discoveries even if they don't involve little green men.

 

[Optiluiz]

I for one welcome our new Russian/Marvel comics/Cybertronian/Galactic Empire overlords.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

Well, here's to our new alien overlords. *raises glass* It was bound to happen eventually.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Nasa's explanation sounds reasonable to me. Especially since it appears to be directly 'behind' the planet.

Not to mention wouldn't an object of that size(ie about half the size of mercury) be sucked into the sun that close? I mean I'm definitely not a physics person but I'd say that would be a bad place to hang out

 

[Zhukov]

Carrier has arrived.

Someone call Shepard.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Oh, nevermind. It was just some gravy on the telescope. *Teehe* What a bummer.

 

[Tiger Sora]

THERE IS A LARGE PLANET SIZED OBJECT CLOSE TO MERCURY. IT IS BLUE-GREEN AND APPEARS TO SUPPORT RUDIMENTARY CARBON-BASED LIFE.

The Russians built a whole planet? This is worse than I thought.

And than they abducted you, altered your memories, and your living on that planet. RUN DUDE RUN!!!!

 

[2fish]

THERE IS A LARGE PLANET SIZED OBJECT CLOSE TO MERCURY. IT IS BLUE-GREEN AND APPEARS TO SUPPORT RUDIMENTARY CARBON-BASED LIFE.

The Russians built a whole planet? This is worse than I thought.

And than they abducted you, altered your memories, and your living on that planet. RUN DUDE RUN!!!!

But this Russian planet has skyrim...what if the American plane doesn't have skyrim? Am I typing in Russian and I don't know it? What do Russians taste like?

 

[Vanbael]

*sighs* Ok, I'm going to say this...why Mercury? Why? Its a fucking fireball on one side and an icicle on the other. Come to think of it, if they are that stupid, then that explains where my dumbass coworker comes from. I'll have to figure out their signal to flag them down so they can take him back.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well I sure like some mystery of impending doom with my coffee in the morning, but whatever telescope was used is highly inaccurate so it wouldn't surprise me if it's simply a sensory shadow.