Meteor Shower

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Is this a type of meteor shower

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs/20050702_1718_c3.gif

[Omicron Persei 8]

Is this a type of meteor shower

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs/20050702_1718_c3.gif

No that looks like an image from SOHO.

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/


Don't Hate Me Cause I Am Dum

Um...you spelled dumb wrong ;)

[Jens]

Is this a type of meteor shower

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs/20050702_1718_c3.gif

I'm not sure what those streaks are, but I think probably it's because the exposure was long and these are things moving slowly, but sufficiently to seem as streaks. If you take a picture for a few minutes from a telescope that doesn't move, the stars will appear as streaks rather than dots, because of the rotation of the earth (or, according to the GR, that might be rotation of the universe around the earth!).

But I don't know what they are. After all, one sees fixed stars in the same picture.

[The Bad Astronomer]

Meteors (technically, meteoroids) wouldn't be seen by SOHO. They're only bright here because they're burning up in our atmosphere. SOHO is a million miles out in space.

It's almost certainly debris from SOHO itself. I wrote about this; there is a website attached to this bulletin board (http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/soho.html).