Originally posted by DarknStormy
My first thought would be maybe a comet?? But then again, who knows. Good find never the less

Probably not a comet bacause the tail of a comet should be facing away from the sun but from this picture it looks to me that the tail is heading from the object towards the sun! As if this object had somehow come out of our star itself! Maybe it is an invasion fleet coming to take what resources we have not wasted or maybe they are just coming to set us straight! Maybe they see us as a Virus and they are coming to rid the earth of this harmful virus! Maybe it's just a artifact in the CCD! Maybe it's just a very large meteor moving through the sun itself!
Maybe it's just time for us to concentrate on our lives instead of nonsense going on outside our relm of influence!
Or maybe not!

Originally posted by Phage
Cosmic ray strikes on the CCD...again. One of the most important indicators being that they appear in a single frame. Not in the one minutes before. Not in the one minutes after.

If it's a camera glitch, it's not gonna be there for a minute ... next minute gone ... a hardware glitch is going to be there for a while, and continuously appearing.

And an "ionisation" ... hey, the Sun is shooting it out like it's being payed for it ... if it's there one second, and the next second it isn't ... brushing it off, is nonsense. It's just as much nonsen to brush them off as glitches, as it is to paint them as UFO's. Both cases, are "not-dealing-with-it".

That the "tail" may be a flair effect ... but if it is, there is something causing it. And maybe it isn't a UFO, but it sure as hell ain't just a glitch.

It's Destiny.. the ship had to enter the star to power up it's systems.. I thought they were a billion light years away... wow.. maybe we'll get a season 3?

Seriously though.. have no idea. pixel error maybe...

To give my professional opinion as a professional photographer and someone who sees image artifacts every day, I'm honestly not so sure here. I'd have to see a higher resolution version of this image to be sure but it definitely looks like an object to me. I'm thinking possibly a meteor of some kind, perhaps on elliptical orbit and when this image was taken it makes it look lie it's coming around the sun, when in fact it's actually going around it --- optical illusion. That'd be my take on it but I'm not sure.

Going beyond reasonable assumptions perhaps a UFO that can harvest energy directly from the sun leaving it's orbit. ::shrug:: who knows.

Yeah this is definitely a glitch. The perfect verticalness and the line ending in a pure white color are the big alerts. If it wasn't sheer white at the end there, I might be more inclined to believe but then again, it's still vertical with the image sensor so maybe not.

To me it looks like a flare.

I think it is an artifact. It is totally vertical, and this type of presentation, bright point image with streaky line is pretty much a textbook example of SOHO/LASKO artifacts.

Remember again, friends, this display is processed imagery designed to look at prominence and solar wind. It takes stars and planets and makes UFO's out of them, because the equipment is not concerned with those bright, point objects, and the video processing is totally involved in enhancing the solar data. Take it for what it is worth.

Why do some of you keep asking for phage? Can none of you think for yourselves that you need him to give you his best rational guess at what it is, so you can sleep better at night?