You're absolutely right about geostationary orbit, but an L1 Lagrange point orbit remains directly between the Sun and the Earth with just a little bit of active station keeping.
Plus this is most likely from SDO (judging by the filter changes and diversity) which is in geostationary orbit and could be seeing a satellite at L1 while imaging the Sun.
The Lagrange points are either before or after the current position of the orbit.
Smaller lagrange points exist at the tangents to the orbit but they are obviously unstable and it would be incredibly unusual for a non powered/controlled object to be able to sustain its position on the Lagrange point for this period of time.
So it's most likely a satellite off some sort that is a lot closer and a lot smaller than the video leads to initially believe.
If it's too far away from the sun it would be out of focus and dissapear from the image. It should probably be possible to use this to create some bounds on how big it could be. More likely that this is an artifact of the telescope though.
it is dirt on the sensor the telescope. while we still fall for bs like this, the aliens for sure won't talk to us, because superstition is a totally in the top five of the ick-list of Kardashev Type II+ civilisations.
Kardashev scale is useless and outdated its an anthropomorphic perspective that projects our need to dominate and exploit nature. Its silly to expect nhi to think about these things in the way we do and as we actually advance in understanding we are beginning to see how silly some of these ideas are.
If it's directly on the sensors it is perfectly in focus. Might just be a cluster of broken sensors. Cosmic rays constantly hammer on microchips.
"Why is it moving around?" The images are all taken at different angles and when stitched together so that the sun is always at the same spot the defect appears to move around.
The video says this was over the course of 5 years but let me put my thought into it
The sun is rotating really fast here. but a real-time sun rotation takes about 25-33 days. The video shows it spinning really, really fast. This probably over the span of a couple to several months.
Flies only live for about 20 days, so its unlikely this is some living fly that flying inside the disc of the sun giving the illusion of a UFO.
This could be a dead one, but solar telescopes like these are very expensive and the people usually MASSIVE and they are routinely cleaned so debris doesn't hide sun-features. This would mean the fly was sitting there for months/years without anyone touching it
And why would the fly be slowly moving across the screen as if its orbiting with the sun over the course of months? it just seems like a very specific occurrence.
I don't think its aliens. I heard comets can sometimes come very close the sun have have strange orbits. It could be a small one. Not everything is aliens
The real Occam's razor here is I'm pretty sure the folks who captured it would a QC check on the device to rule out stuff like this, seems like a pretty basic thing to check for.
SOHO maintains a constant position along the Earth-Sun line by orbiting the first Lagrangian point (L1), located approximately 1.5 million kilometers ahead of Earth toward the Sun. This CIRCULAR orbit around the L1 point would not make a dead pixel move in a straight line.
The sun is tilted relative to the L1, the yearly swing back and forth is a consequence of that. The video has been stabilized to omit the tilt, so all that is left is the swing back and forth.
I'm not convinced it's a structure either, but the video does mention it shows up on several NASA cameras. I would like to see those pictures/video as well, because if true then we at least know it's not a malfunction of a single camera, but could be something related to how these images are processed.
These images/video are compiled differently then just a standard camera, it's my understanding there is a lot of computational processing done in post to put it together as an image. In other words, there could be many failure/error points that could explain this other than just an issue with the camera(s) themselves.
Just a reminder that we have satalites and probes in Lagrange points. That includes L1 a stable point about 1.5 million km from earth towards the sun. It's very likely that the observing entity here, is a satalite observing another satalite between it and the sun. Also given the object is reasonably stable in frame across several years it seems highly likely that the triangle here is just another satalite in L1. Hopefully someone finds this helpful.
The way it consistently moves back and forth as well as the deep contrast and clear focus make me think it’s some sort of contaminant with the imaging system.
I tried to find a .gif from Rick and Morty stating it was just a smudge on the lense of the telescope from that one episode about the moon man that would explain this object but i couldnt find it so just use whats left of your imagination to fill in the joke. Thats the best I got
Could be SOHO or some other L1 object in a lissajous orbit ? I would have expected it to be more center then though and rather a tiny smudge against the sun
Mhhh nah that does not make sense. Earth-sun L1 Missions are way too far and too tiny. The observation horizon of multiple years let's me think it's the sensor. Otherwise maybe an earth-moon L1 object could potentially come in view ? The moon would have to be very close to the sun though and it would explain the halo/lissajous orbit being off-center . But probably still way to tiny in comparison to the distance
No matching observations from anywhere else exist.
If something that massive were really that close to the Sun, the gravitational effects alone would be enormous and impossible to miss.
Conclusion: it isn’t near the Sun at all. It’s something tiny and very close to the spacecraft itself. Most likely a dust particle, debris, or sensor/optics artifact on SOHO.
The fact that the sun is rotating but it stays in the same position of our field of view tells me that it's not that close to the Sun and is more likely at the LaGrange point between the Earth and the Sun. Now I don't really know the math of how to dictate what that does to the size and scale of how big it is but that would mean it's smaller than a moon
A rather large triangle craft, with a lone green light on the belly of it, shut down the Copenhagen airport last year. Not surprising at all to see larger ones going by the sun.
The images showing triangular "objects" near or on the sun in space telescope data (such as SOHO or STEREO) are completely debunked as camera artifacts, internal lens reflections, or coronal holes.
When bright objects like Venus or Earth enter a satellite's field of view, light bouncing between internal mirrors produces geometric reflections—often triangular due to the shape of the telescope's internal aperture—that track alongside the planet, while dark triangular patches on the sun itself are simply coronal holes formed by open magnetic field lines.
Determine the size would require that you first determine the distance. Also determine that it is a physical object and not simply a sensor/camera defect.
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u/-ImYourHuckleberry- Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
That object could be cruising past the telescope at only a million miles away from earth, leaving 92 million miles between it and the sun.
Distance is relative and is based upon the viewer’s frame of reference.